Homeschooling

This year is busier than last year. I am being much more proactive with my kids’ schooling and life training. This has been a journey of improvement spiritually, physically and mentally that I have been on and decided to take my kids on with me for I see the benefits and inner peace (which term they stole from Christianity and not the other way around) and inner joy it gives. I want my family to have this too, so I am pulling and sharing with them in the journey more. And although we are practicing greater physicality, we are also practicing greater pauses. And the schoolwork is harder because we are at critical grades- 3rd and 7th.

All this to say that parenting is extremely time-consuming. However, I know two things: 1. God has time for all of us, loves us and can pick up any slack we lack; and 2. My kids and their future depend on my input so it is worth every humbling moment I put their needs before mine. It is that simple. 😄❤

School is Getting Fun

My kids are appreciating school now and so am I. It just took a few days to get into it. Now, we are having fun. It helps that we are not doing many extra-curricular activities this year. I said no to coaching this year so we have more freedom to travel and bring the dog to PE. Also, we are just having tons of family time and more going on to help with because we are third and seventh grades now. More is expected because they are growing into their skin more. The dog really has changed everything. We go to the dog park about every day and that is fun. We just have so much fun. It is working now. And it n is good for us all as a family. Love it. Praise God! Reinforced for me that if you obey, God rewards by making it fun in time.😄❤

Totally Not Excited

I was excited to plan my kids’ homeschooling schedule and field trips and events and extracurricular activities. I was. Today as we were supposed to start school, we just did PE and planned more. I could not get excited about actually starting. My kids also were not excited at all. Just seems to have come too soon. Zac had a busy summer going to Honduras on a missions trip and then going to PA for a week to visit grandparents. That makes summer fly by and makes us really not ready to get back to school.

So, tomorrow we start anyway and we will pray together for the fortitude and faithfulness to do what we know to do and learn and just do it despite our feelings about it. This is a bigger lesson. We have to do the right thing despite how we feel about it.😄❤

Preparing for Homeschooling

Amazingly, it is August already. August. And already the second day of August. So…

Time to prepare the best I can. Time to clean up the study spaces and work and craft spaces. Time to get books ready to go and accessible again. Time to neaten and declutter and prioritize. Time to get a new calendar and figure out field trips.

I was dreading all this prep stuff but now I am getting excited. I so love teaching my children! I feel so spoiled being able to homeschool them! Praise God for this gift!😄❤