My homeschooling friend Jenny has implored me to start blogging again so that she may be inspired to get back to blogging herself.  Good Golly!  Where has the time gone?  Well, Jenny, here is my feeble attempt to get you....and me.....going.

I have guiltily thought of my blog over these past several months.  I have thought about it as I sat poring through my friends' Facebook pages.  Yes, I have been sucked into the Facebook quagmire.  That has garnered more of my attention than this homeschool blog. 

That isn't an easy thing to admit.  The Bible says in Matthew 6:21, "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."  So where has my heart been these past several months???  What have I been treasuring?  I think you can figure that out.

Don't get me wrong....I don't sit for hours on Facebook while my kids clamor for my assistance with their schoolwork.  It isn't that bad.

However, my blog has sat here untouched, un-updated, dormant, neglected.  I started it so that my family in MN could keep abreast of our homeschooling doings after we moved out of state.  Well, as far as they know, we don't homeschool anymore!!!  Well, I exaggerate, because, of course, I talk to them often so they know we are still plugging away.  But you get my drift, I think.  Meanwhile, I daily post my "status" to my Facebook wall.  Something funny will happen and I think, "Oooohhhh....that's gotta go on FB!"  Hmmmmmm.........

I know my blog is an inanimate thing.  It does not breathe, or grow, or live as we human beings do; at least, not on its own.  But it is animate inasmuch as I make it so.  So, by golly, it needs to be a living thing again.  It needs to be resurrected as a mirror of our lives as homeschoolers.  It needs to be at the head of the class, at the wheel driving this car; it needs to be at the forefront of my updating efforts.....not my wall on Facebook. 

Yes, Facebook has its place, and I value it for what it is...a place to reconnect with high school, college and law school classmates, old neighbors, friends, etc; a place to share amusing daily happenings or thoughts.  And I do like peeking into my "friends'" lives from time to time; I like reading the snippets of what their life is like on any given day.  But do I want it to be where my treasure is?  Where my heart is?  I can figure that one out.

So, there we go, Jenny.  Your turn.  Let's keep each other motivated.  Nothing grand.  Daily homeschooling status updates.  Keep it simple.  You can do it.  I did.