Planners.

I love planners. I love calendars. I love filling in brand new planners and calendars with a brand new sharpened pencil. This part of home school, I was looking forward to. Any chance to use another planner. What a disappointment it turned out to be.

In the world of teacher planners, I found lots of brightly colored, kid like ones. I am confused by this, as the planner IS for the teacher, right? Where are the cute black and white ones? How about a lime-y green one with zebra trim?? Or a pretty metallic aqua one with crystals on the front? Another problem with all of them, is that they are made for a classroom of students, all doing the same subject. I need one that shows multiple students doing different subjects, all on one page. An at a glance type...for us newbies.

I then had the brilliant revelation that there probably is one specifically for home schooling. How right I was. There is a homeschool ONE. Yesterday I chose from 11 kinds of chicken broth at the grocery store. Just one choice on a planner, huh? Really? Are the other ones hiding somewhere? It does come in multiple colors, I will give them that. No offense, but oh how it's dull. Maybe even just a bit life sucking. Functionally speaking, each page shows 5 students at a time, but there are only 41 pages. It costs 12.95! My calculations are that I would need 5 of those to get me through the year. Bleh.

I sat down the week before school started to do my "lesson plans". It did not go well, I am not gonna lie. I spent two days completely frustrated until I realized what my problem was. "One can not plan, what one does not know." Problem solved. I gave myself 3 weeks of trial and error. THEN I will bust out the planner. It will be much easier, when I am more familiar with what I am planning. My 3 weeks aren't up yet and already I feel like I could sit down and do it now.

My sad ugly duckling planner, sits patiently on my desk. I will use it out of necessity. Maybe one day I will design a homeschool planner. In my opinion there is a need. This is incredibly trivial in the grand scheme of things. I get that. I'm just sayin'...