Home school isn't as easy as it sounds

It started off pretty smoothly, but then Audrey got sick, then Stuart and the homework plans that I'd so nicely laid out were shot. Two weeks later we're still struggling to catch up. I really had planned for it to go much smoother than it has, though it hasn't gone all to pot, thankfully. Audrey spent a half-hour doing math drills and Stuart has finished his rough draft of the essay on Ho Chi Minh (and it's pretty good). He even did some reading today and Audrey's been working on a picture book of animals in our "neighborhood" as an art/writing project.
So I guess it isn't all bad, but the plan was to spend 2-3 hours a day doing school work and it really hasn't been close to that. It's so hard to fit it in between visits to the orphanages, meals, lesson planning, errands and my own reading and writing assignments for my university Anthropology course. I really had good intentions, but the real school work for the kids will have to wait until mine is done.
It really would be so much easier to teach them at home if that was all I had to do. I'm never going to be a housewife again though, so I gotta figure out how to do this. Once we get to Ha Noi, I'll have to figure it out a bit better (looking into the idea of hiring someone to help me out with the kids while I'm working). We'll see. The school bit is critical or we have to go back to the States and none of us are ready for that quite yet.

Random photo:
Kids at the baby orphanage. Really these kids are among my favorite and always want to be carried on my shoulders or Stuart's. We run and chase with them and play silly screaming games, but they're also sweet as pie when they want to be and today nearly all of them blew me kisses goodbye. It was the first time any of them had done it back to me and it honestly melded them into my heart. I'll never forget these kids. (But I do wish I could remember their names better!)