Yesterday was the most difficult day homeschooling ever. I dont know if there was something in the water, or if my kids temporarily lost their sanity, but it took us FIVE HOURS to get through HALF of a day's curriculum! Nobody would focus, nobody would stop making annoying sound effects, No matter how fun I tried to make things, how much I calmly reminded them to stop and do their work, it just wasn't gonna happen. There were tears, whining, complaining, daydreaming.... I think my kids turned into monsters yesterday. I would tell them to do ONE page of the cursive, and 30 minutes later, there's not a mark on the page! ARGHHHHHH!!!! (we need a emoticon of a mom pulling her hair out!)
After 5 hours, I finally said ENOUGH, and threw them in the back yard to go run through the sprinklers (and stop bouncing off my walls!)
Today, I havent even started homeschooling yet, even though it's almost 1 pm. I'm afraid of going through that again today, and I just don't think I have the patience today.
I even turned on cartoons because I needed the (mental) break.
How do I get back in that groove that worked?
Does this happen to other mom's or am I just a horrible homeschool mom?
We had one of those days yesterday, actually two days in a row! I was pulling my hair out as well! The kids were playing dumb, and weren't answering any questions; phonics was going backwards; and there was choas in between! I was mentally exhausted! When my husband came home, bless his heart, I told him I was done with homeschooling!!! 
I can't do this!
Our worst incident came on Wed when I left him at the kitchen table to copy 4 sentences from the R&S lesson, and do his 3 vocabulary cards for history. Now...since the vocab assignment was new we had gone through it together and I wrote on a small white board the word, definition, and sentence so that all he had to do was copy it. So off I went with the little 2 upstairs to do LHTH and we had a blast! We were so into our "color hunting" that day that I was gone 45 minutes and figured Grant had run out of things to do. Nope. In fact, he had only copied 1 sentence from his R&S...! 
(This is where I almost flipped my lid...) He came up with varying excuses as to why there was so little on his paper...but the main problem he typically has is an overactive imagination. He's a daydreamer. (Not the laying in a field/quiet and peaceful kind though...he has exciting action stories and inventions bouncing around in there!) At lunch when we were talking about this with dad I laid out my theory as to why the work wasn't done that day. He just couldn't resist knowing what I was doing with Allison and Garret and kept going to the stairs to evesdrop. Yep, that was it.