learning

We continued to navigate homeschooling.  I realize what a

process it is for all of us.  I know I have a lot to

learn.  I desire more and more to foster a love of learning

and not just be concerned about "checking off "what we did...

To trust the process over the year and not get overly caught

up in the day, to have a vision where we are going and

use that to guide instead of to feel pressured, anxious,

or lack spontaneity.  To continue to see all of our day as

learning and homeschooling and not just the book time

we do at the table.

dada doing a little teaching one day....

 

We headed to the Monterey Bay Aquarium to meet

my sweet friend Bonny and her two sweeties, Cora

and Jackson. 

 

The day at the aquarium we were there for about

5 hours...(long enough to forget to move our car and

thus acquire a parking ticket!)  I was feeling like we

needed to get back to do some table book work.  I

realized how we were learning.  Deveraux was showing

interest and engaged with these different films being

shown.  I need to embrace the aspect

of homeschooling that offers the freedom of being

more spontaneous and if something is working and

learning is happening...that is great!

Deveraux told me one day, "Teenagers seem to act

in two ways.  silly or sassy."  So later I asked her,

"So which one will you be?"  She said silly.  She said,

"The ones who are sassy have cell phones when they are 12."

Sustenance for Home schooling:

patience

planning

engagement

putting aside

creative

possibility

not for the faint of heart 

 

We were trying to write a card one day for a friend.

Deveraux was struggling if she should say, "best friend".

She said, "We went through a dark time." 

 (This was when she had teased Dev). 

Oh that girl knows and expresses a lot.

Today Bobo discovered all is leaves and roly poly bugs were

gone from inside his seat of his little ice cream truck.

He said, "they are it all and left."

Deveraux and I laughed so hard.  I realized I had dumped

out all the leaves as I was cleaning up the backyard,

forgetting it was a home.

Bobo asked one day, "How did God make

everything at the same time?"

Another day, "Did the Egyptians wear undies?"

 

"Right now my issue is feeling time pressured.  Time goes so

quickly.  We started too late-I want to be casual but time

won't wait.  I stayed up too late so I am more irritable,

I feel like Bobo's listening is way down which makes me

crazy to keep repeating myself.  I need some space and

time...neither of which are in abundance.

Trying to set up calendar this morning-schedule last times with

people, homeschooling plan...I wish I were a more spontaneous person."

(a journal exert on September 9th)

After our morning memory verse, "Children obey your parents

in the Lord...."  Bobo said, ""Obey the Lord with your heart."

"How do you do that," I ask, just salivating at the opportunity

to teach...He simply said, "With His power!"

I could not have said it better or with more truth. 

First Lego kit

 

Homeschool calls up so many things....

-trusting the process

-trusting my kids

-allowing spontaneity

-trusting God and myself

-not expressing anxiety when I feel it (about what we are not getting done)

-not relying on my own strength

"For I will not trust in my bow, nor will my sword save me.

But you have saved us!"  Psalm 44

Bobo's first significant Lego build!