Homeschooling Advice

I must admit that this week has really thrown me off. I think that it’s because of the holiday and thus the 4 day week. However, we usually only have a 4 day school week anyway so I’m not sure that I can really blame it on that. I think I’m just really struggling to keep up with everything that I have going on right now whether it’s homeschooling or work or what. I really will be glad when all of my daughter’s activities start up so that we can get onto a real schedule. Once that happens I’m hoping that it’ll be smooth sailing from that point on. I know that could be wishful thinking though. That is why I’m wondering if anyone has any tips or tricks to help keep both themselves and their students motivated and on track throughout the school year. I know that there has to be something that we haven’t tried yet that will really help or else maybe we really are unschoolers at heart even though that somewhat scares me. I don’t know why I struggle with that so much. I know my daughter is smart. I know that she’s learning and I know that I shouldn’t be pushing us to always have to do book work when I know there’s a lot of other important things to do in life. Yet here I am struggling with unschooling again, in much the same way that I struggled at the end of last school year. Hopefully this isn’t going to be a continuous struggle for the rest of my life! Any suggestions here would also be greatly welcomed.