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  Just the other day I had lamented about not spending enough time with my Evan (4).  Low and behold he just started reading on his own, showing I had not been as neglectful as I had thought.  While I admit that homeschooling the upper grades has proven to be a growing challenge, especially with multiple olders, today God showed me part of His marvelous plan. 

     Since Evan started reading, we have been doing some fun on our grease board with writing words and having him read them to us.  Today, I decided we would use our magnetic letters and megnetic board to reinforce what he had learned.  My plan was to say a vocabulary word and have him find the letters and spell the words on the board. 

     The first few words went well, then I started to notice a lack of interest.  He began telling me all sorts of other things, relating to letters however.  The 2 yo showed me a C turned sideways makes a rainbow shape.  Then came the type of miracle that really brings me to His feet.

     Evan picked up 2 numbers (2,5) and made 25, the number of his favorite hockey player, Dave Andreychuck.  He giggled and thought himself grand.  As I tried to redirect back to our words, God made sure that I didn't miss the lesson, by having Evan pursue his idea.  He put up 2 other numbers and told me the correspnding player.  He went through the entire Lightning team.  Then he changed gears.  He started his own number line.  1, 2, 3, 4...  I thought he would stop at ten, because we don;t have many numbers, but he didn't.  He placed a 1 and a 1 for 11.  Then he took the second 1 away and replaced it with a 2.  This continued til 20.  Again he kept going.  He kept right on going until 40!  That little bugger turned language arts into math.  Now that is amazing!

     Thank you God for allowing me the ability to see when you are working on a different area with my children.  Thank you for the opportunity to see my children learning and helping guide them along.  My abundant gratitude for allowing me to be the type of mom that can step back from my own plan and let the children lead with their own thoughts. 

     What a wonderful Day.  The ease of homeschooling!

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