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Well my oldest daughter who is 16 and I went shopping today. She is quite the bargain hunter and found us some GREAT deals. We got some sweatshirts and hoodies for $5 at a name brand store...they were having a huge sale. We also found some pants for $10 and $19 ...just the kind she likes, which in itself is pretty awesome as she is quite picky about the clothes she wears. But she really wanted a couple of new outfits, and I told her what her limit was and she went hunting. It was so cool to watch her and how she shops.
Many great lessons on money management, consumer marketing, fashion etc...a great educational field trip and fun to boot!
We then went out for tea time and had a lovely visit with one another. I try to make it a habit where each pay day I go out on a "date" with one of my daughters just so we have some time for us. We catch each other up on our "gossip" and what the latest is with our friends and my work, and her outside school projects and community service. My oldest is quite involved with a dance group and of course they are teens so there is always lots of news to catch up on with her crowd.
I am so very grateful that I have a good relationship with both of my girls. It is wonderful to see them becoming young women, making plans for their futures and creating new goals for themselves. |
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I have been discussing this idea of the lost art of writing letters and creating friendship books to send to one another. When we were younger we used to love pen palling and sending various stickers and other items in our letters to one another. But it seems that with the latest technology of computers, that art is being lost in the growth of internet and emails. Sometimes I would love to just sit and read over past letters that I have received and kept so that we can pour over the latest family updates, or sharing the latest gossip, passing on favorite recipes and sharing our dreams and goals with one another. We tend not to do that when sending emails. They are more quick replies to questions or sharing links to information on the internet. I also miss the family newsletters that used to be sent out. The creations of stories that family members have participated in and passed onto friends to take a peek into their lives that past year. Where are all the family newsletters? Do you remember how you used to look forward to the letters from your grandparents? The care packages from your parents that would arrive in the mail with a letter from mom. Or how when your child went away to camp for the summer and would send home letters sharing their fears and cry of homesickness. Do you remember when your friends would move away and you would send packages of stickers, magazine articles that they had read and wanted to share with you. Or the wonderful decorated friendship books that would arrive in the mail with various friend's signatures and poetry that you would also add to and then pass along to the next one on your list. I would really like to renew this lost art of letter writing, creating a safe group of pen pals to share information, ideas of living, homesteading information, creative projects that you want to explore, small scrapbooks etc. Is there anyone else out there that would be interested in creating and participating in this type of project.?
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We are looking at creating a community living in the country. We have been exploring this idea which would embrace our simple living style and create a community that shares our philosophy of our natural learning, and creative home based work opportunities. |
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A new pathways is providing some opportunities for experiential learning to enhance our journey of education. I call this a journey because it started out quite different from how and where we are now in our plan. We started out with a "school format" and now have evolved into our very comfortable natural learning style. This has worked for us for a few years now and we are very content in our life.
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