Monday, April 21, 2008
Monday Smile
This morning held a special treat for the littles at our house. I heard all kinds of exclaiming! "Mommy! mommy! wook! wook! Mommy come see the CHICKENS! " I peeked out the curtain and saw 2 guinea hens. (the neighbors birds like to go visiting on occasion) :-) I explained to the children that these are not chickens but guinea hens and I showed them a picture in the encyclopedia. I told them what they like to eat and how people use them like "watch dogs" sometimes.
After a little while, Doodlebug said "chickens!" and her sister announced "NO, no! Chickens all gone...gindedenel sens!" (Which translated means "no those are not chickens they are guinea hens"). It's amazing how much little ones can learn, even if they seem too young and can barely talk. They learn more than we realize.
This morning made me smile. I love to homeschool!
Labels: Another Day, Homeschool
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
And Now I Can Hear the Birds Singing
Today is the first day of freedom for me in a couple of weeks! I go through it every year. When April comes I began a long, tedious and exhausting process. The children don't enjoy it anymore than I do...tax time. By the 16th of April joy reigns again and I feel like dancing on the housetop and shouting hurray to passersby! We have almost always been self employed around here and hubby has his own 'recordkeeping style'. Ahem...
This year I was able to convince him to put all his notes into one planner style book, and to put all receipts into one box. It still took me almost a week to finish all the work. (Probably because I homeschool and have two 2 year olds in the house! :-) ) In the end our new 'hi-tech' system saved me loads of stress and time, so I'm very happy! So--if i pop by your place on the web and seem unusually cheery you now know why.
Well, I'm off to begin a happy day of homeschooling and dishwashing and laundry and bill paying...It all seems so simple and light again!
Perspective. It's the stuff life is made of.
This year I was able to convince him to put all his notes into one planner style book, and to put all receipts into one box. It still took me almost a week to finish all the work. (Probably because I homeschool and have two 2 year olds in the house! :-) ) In the end our new 'hi-tech' system saved me loads of stress and time, so I'm very happy! So--if i pop by your place on the web and seem unusually cheery you now know why.
Well, I'm off to begin a happy day of homeschooling and dishwashing and laundry and bill paying...It all seems so simple and light again!
Perspective. It's the stuff life is made of.
Labels: Another Day, Holidays and Celebrations
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Motherhood
"Oh that God would give every mother a vision of the glory and splendor of the work that is given to her when a babe is place in her bosom to be nursed and trained! Could she have but one glimpse in to the future of that life as it reaches on into eternity; could she look into it's soul to see its possibilities; could she be made to understand her own personal responsibility for the training of this child, for the development of its life, and for its destiny,--she would see that in all God's world there is no other work so noble and so worthy of her best powers, and she would commit to no others hands the sacred and holy trust given to her."
---JR Miller, a preacher from the 19th century, from the book Homemaking
Labels: Inspirations
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