I'm up late preparing for the coming week. We are starting our second semester and jumping into 2013 with great expectations. I could brag about my children for a couple of paragraphs, but I want to start by thanking the Lord for my beautiful family. My arms are full. My heart is overflowing, and my mind is consumed by their needs most of the day until I seep into this leather office chair and soak up the sound of the dishwasher finishing its load and the two sound machines in each of the two bedrooms. One is set to the ocean setting and one to the summer night setting, so I feel like I am sitting next to the shore on a summer night; pretty blissful if you ask me.
After looking over the state standards for my oldest child, I am so pleased to see he has worked hard and pressed past the first grade and is finishing up the second grade this year. My heart is full as my four year old has extended his vocabulary just by carrying on conversations with adults and listening intently during reading time. Over Christmas break, he sat with his new friend and I watched as he taught addition to a five year old. I was ecstatic on the inside as I felt like I had done my job.
Homeschooling is the most rewarding career I could ever put my mind and talent into. Investing in the lives of my children is a true blessing from my Heavenly Father and I feel so blessed to be able to do it.
Some days are hard and I think how nice it would be to get up at dawn, take a shower, get fully dressed, curl my hair and do my makeup and leave the house. To get up and go to a public workplace is sometimes enticing and then I look down at the little one waiting on me with a pencil and a book in his hand. "Mom, this is confusing. Can you help me, please."
I pull him up into my lap and teach him to the best of my ability. To take interest in these fine details of my children's lives is why I get out of bed every morning.
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