I read my children another chapter of Hillyer's, A Child's History of the World.  It is going very well.  I still have to edit out the evolution.  This book was written before Darwin came out with his beliefs about evolution.  Hillyer wrote in this chapter about this perfect place where candy grew on trees called the Garden of Eden.  I took that as a slam on Creationism and the Bible.  But I asked my children if that was true and I was happy that they knew that the Garden of Eden did NOT have candy in it.  Anyway, We learned more about the geography of Babylon and that area. 

We also heard about the first recorded total eclipse of the sun in the year 2100 BC.  It was a very timely discussion.  It went very well with our recent discussions of the total lunar eclipse last week.  We all stayed up and went outside every 15 minutes to view it.  We are creating memories.  Teaching science and history is different in the 21st century. My children ask me many questions that i frankly do not know the answers to.  I ask them to hold their questions until we are done with our lesson and then we get online and google all of their questions.  I have NASA at my fingertips.  It is amazing.  I went on youtube.com and found a nice 6 minute video of the total eclipse of the sun in 2006 in Turkey. 

I expect that in my children's life this is absolutely normal and obvious.  But I still find it amazing to have the resources to answer my children's questions so completely with the help of the Internet.  And I have to say again how much I enjoy learning with my children.  You know that I learned as much today as they did.

This leads to the question, How different will things be 20 years from now?  Oooo, that sounds like a good question for their journals tomorrow.