Lessons!

We started lessons last Monday with hopes of a relaxed year!  It's amazing how much you change from year to year.  Evaluating is a good thing.  You would think a life full of six children, I would be overwhelmed, but this year I have the peace of God that he has shown me my way.  He has carved out our year with his word, studying character, reading real books, writing, art, unit studies, math, field trips, and lots of fun!  I am going into this year with a relaxed mental attitude trusting that the Holy Spirit will lead me in all things.  He is a good God and when you are walking on the path of his will, obedient to His word He blesses you and bestows his peace upon you.  Things may not always seem good, but you can have His peace always.

I think the one of best parts of curriculum is reading REAL books.  They are so full of information that becomes alive to you as you read.  For my older children they get the pleasure of reading these books for themselves.  As for my younger children I get that pleasure.  One of the biggest things I am concentrating on this year is reading to my little ones.

I get amazed to see the younger ones picking up so much.  I was planning on starting some preschool lessons with Malachi and Makayla, but soon decided that I didn't think I was going to have time for that.  We have done lessons for a week and didn't hear a word out of them about what they wanted to do until this morning.  They were begging me do do their "school jobs" (their words).  Soooo here we go.  Lessons for preschoolers.  I guess they are ready sometimes before we are! 

 

So back to the table of evaluation and changing my routine that I am trying to find!  I'VE GOT IT!  I say, Little ones in the morning, older ones in the afternoon!  It all works!  Thank you God!

A new week, a new plan.  It's all good!

We have to be willing to change things in our lives, especially if we are homeschooling many children.  It has taken me about 6 years to get here and I look forward to more change and evaluation.

Someone told me to look at our lives as fluid instead of being flexible.  If your flexible you can still break but fluid just flows.  It may go through different things, take different routes, but it is still flowing.  It's going to get where it's going it just might not be a straight shot.  That's how I need to look at teaching my children day in and day out.

Homeschooling is so worth it.  To get to see your children flourish before your very eyes is a wonderful thing.  How rewarding.  To get to see them take on life and make good decisions.  How rewarding.  To see them mature year after year.  How rewarding.

As most people are sending their blessings away I get to welcome mine into my living room every morning for a day full of adventure!