Thank you for you many words of encouragement and your prayers for our little girl and for our whole family. We wait and pray and try to keep all things in perspective - really, so much worse could happen! For now, our daughter is well and we are continuing the daily struggle of fitting it all in: school and play, hiking in the woods and tidying the house, preparing for Christmas and enjoying visits from friends.
As such, I am behind on my blogging. I want specifically to get my next blog out on our virtual Mother Culture meeting. This past meeting was on nurturing and discipling our kids. We also talked practically about language arts and came up with a great resource list.
As we slog away, rather distractedly, at our reading and math lessons this fall I am constantly reminded to keep worthy goals in mind and am thankful for God's grace which I know will sustain us. We are also focusing on giving our kids the skills to fill in the gaps for themselves which are bound to come in any education let alone one with so much humanity interspersed into it as our little one room school house has.
Yes, there will be ways that a licensed teacher would far surpass me in her teaching skills and knowledge - I am acutely aware of this as I, the Math Mama, am teaching an art class to a group of elementary schoolers. On the other hand, in our home we can focus on helping our kids to learn work ethic while they are cleaning a bathroom, or to learn problem solving skills when they need to help their sister find her missing pair of runners, or logic when they have to decide how to arrange the plates on the table for the guests that are coming. Our lessons may not always be formal but always we are teaching and our children are learning. The rest will fall into line. I pray for that everyday.
Blessings Friends,
Cori
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