Hello!  Thanks for dropping by.  I thought I must might do a "day in the life" kind of post, just to let you know what we have been up to!

First of all, I love the quiet time I can have first thing in the morning, with my cup of coffee and God's Word.  Now, I would be lying if I said that I am faithful to do this every day, I am not.  I know how important it is, but sometimes I am off and running in forty different directions before I realize I don't even have an inkling about where I am going!  But on a perfect day, yes. 

Once the kids get up, and sometimes they even get up before I do, they are really good about getting going.  This morning, they were all up, clustered together in one room crocheting!  Before breakfast, for goodness sake.  You see, they are trying to come up with a way to earn some money, so they are making these adorable little crocheted purses.  Even the boys are in on this.  The youngest is just learning how to do those kinds of things, and before you jump on me and tell me I am demasculinizing (is that a word?)the little guy, I assure you, he is ALL boy.  But back to our day:

I had to rally them up for breakfast, and then grooming and chores.  That means wash and look presentable, feed the animals and then we eat together most mornings.  Then off to the living room for our devotional time.  We are reading (again) Leading Little Ones to God, and it is a good book, but we have found out that we have to go to the Bible and double check for accuracy.  That has been such a neat thing to see the kids do, they are finding that a lot of books, videos etc, are watered down Bible stories, and they are wanting the meat, and not the milk anymore, and certainly not the sour milk.  They want the real thing! They are catching the mistakes!  I am pretty pleased to see they don't take everything at face value.

So today, my ds who is 11 read the whole thing to us, and we talked about it.  The subject of today's chapter was about reading the Bible!  God's word is the most important "curriculum" you will ever need to have.  Then we talked about the solar eclipse that could be seen in Africa, Turkey and India---and had a lively discussion about that.

After that, everybody kind of went their own way.  Now, mind you, my kids are older and when they were little, they needed more direction.  They are getting pretty self sufficient in a lot of areas.  That is the neat thing about homeschooling!  But we are still working on a lot of areas of academics, as each child is able to do the next thing.  Oldest dd practiced for her piano lesson, and the other kids worked on their projects for their "business"  getting inventory made for it!  I told them that they have to have 100 purses made before we go "public" with it!  ( I want to make sure they are serious before we do anything like set up a sale or advertise)

In the meantime whenever I had something for them to do, they helped out.  Take out trash, sweep, vac, or mop.  Unload dishwasher.  They are pretty good at helping most of the time. Then when it was time to make lunch, we worked on that together then the boys went out to play while our piano teacher (a homeschool graduate!) came over and taught.

My 11yo ds worked on his computer art program he has, and then he read books.

After that we were surprised by a visit from some homeschooling friends from out of town and so we visited and that was a blessing. One son showed them our venus flytrap, and I stuck a stick in one of the leaves to try to make it "snap" but it didn't do anything.  So I tried another, and BAM it clamped down and scared the living daylights out of me!

 The kids worked on making dinner together (from our list of scheduled meals that we made) and we had homemade biscuits and hamburger stew.  Then I read a fun book out loud, "Owls in the Family"  while my 7yo videotaped me.  (scarey!) And now everyone is off to bed.

It has been a good day!  I am looking forward to tomorrow, and what it will bring.  Some days we spend more time doing seat work, somedays we just work at getting along and learning how a family functions.  Somedays I get stressed if we aren't doing particular things, but usually that is because I start comparing "us" to "them" and they aren't us.  Does that make sense?  I know that I am responsible for teaching my kids how to be learners, to love life and want to learn all there is about it to help them be the best they can be.  The best SELVES they can be.  And our goal is to glorify God and to point to Jesus as much as we are able. 

God has a plan, and we will continue to seek His will for our lives, and the lives of our children.  And we will enjoy each and every moment spent teaching them all there is that we can, in His timing.  But don't waste any time, once it is gone, it is gone.  Kids grow up tooooooo fast!

Homeschooling is Life!

Nancy

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