Homework and grade frustration

Today our family is dealing with homework and grade frustration.  In our school district as probably in most now days we get emails regarding grades and such, well today I got an alert from Gradespeed saying that the J-man is failing Social Studies.  Social Studies, really?  His explanation is that it is boring and he already knows this stuff.  Really? He knows all about the Constitution and the Bills of Rights, which is what he is studying right now, so I quiz him about it, and you know what, he knows nothing, no wonder.  

The Z-man loses his homework every week and needs to hunt for it everyday to work on it. Which ensues into Z getting frustrated and me in losing my patience which makes me a very ornery mother.  Why can't they put it in the same place everyday?  I mean I have tried to make a place for them to put it, I had a box, folder, even a drawer at one time.  

Teachers I commend you in your job, it is a job that I would not be able to do.  Bless You!

What do you do to help your child with homework and how do you keep your patience while doing it? 

Thursdays...

Thursday for me are very stressful for some reason. I guess it is because the weekend is coming and I am trying to get everything done so I don't have to spend my weekend cleaning and doing my homework that is due on Monday. I think that I need to start scheduling out my days. It seems that I lose track of my time and I end up scrambling to do everything on Thursday and Friday.

Now about some good news, we finally found some land, just an acre, that we are going to buy for our future dream home. It is in Liberty Hill, which is a small town but they have wonderful schools that are still small enough so the kids get some individual attention, which is what Z is going to need. Now I am looking into house plans and builders. It is so exciting to be creating and designing your dream home.

I am pulling my hair out...

So we are remodeling the master bath and it has taken Jeremy 4 days to lay the tile in there, meanwhile we are using the boys bathroom and let me tell you I need to get in there and clean more often. It may look clean on the surface but apparently my boys can't aim very well. Anyway Jeremy finally finished grouting the tile this morning so now I need to paint it again, I can't seem to pick a good color so now I am using sagey green tones for the bath and the bedroom.

Ok another reason I am pulling my hair out is that I am taking a algebra class online and I am behind because for some reason last weeks work is not clicking in my brain. Why do you need to know how to divide polynomials. Jeremy helps me some, but instead of explaining it to me he just tells me the answer. I need learn how to do it. Algebra and I have a checkered past, I had horrible teachers in high school so I never really learned anything and if I did learn anything I didn't retain it for future use. I was not blessed with the math gene, I get that, I just wish it would make sense.