I decided this morning to start school with My. We’ve worked on whatever her interests are at the time, but have been less than consistent overall because I think and research us clear through one phase of learning into the next phase when it starts all over again. Should we homeschool her, should we not? If we homeschool what curriculum should we use? If we send her to school where should we send her? (I admit I am overly analytical.) My turned 5 recently and doesn’t quite understand why she can’t start Kindergarten right now, so today I decided to act! At about 7:30 this morning I told her we were doing school today starting at 9am. She promptly dressed and brushed her teeth and hair, and a little after 9am I printed off a tracing worksheet (not sure why exactly I started off with tracing) and things took off from there. I intended to stop at 11am… it’s 4:45pm and we just stopped fifteen minutes ago.
Granted we weren’t constantly working. Life still goes on so there was little sister to entertain and lunch with three two-year olds today. After that we involved the little ones in bible story time (Matthew 7:24-29), singing about the wise man who built his house upon the rock and finally book reading before their nap, during which My and I spent another couple of hours hanging out working and talking. We ended our day, us girls making dinner together talking about the measurements on the measuring cups and cutting butter into our biscuits.
Overall our first (shall I call it official?) day of school was a great experience. I was able to evaluate what My knows and where she’s struggling. I was also able to accept her learning style today (yeah!). We spent lots of time off on tangents and writing with dry erase markers on the windows as well as doing some math games on the computer (something I’m not generally a fan of for someone her age but we went with it and she loved it). Plus the highlight- sharing a bowl of pumpkin ice cream together as we discussed the bible story we read. We talked about what it means to be wise (doing things God’s way) or foolish (doing things our way) and what it means to be responsible (taking responsibility for our foolishness). My shared with me that she is foolish sometimes- that she is a good person but sometimes makes foolish decisions. *grin* I shared with her that I am foolish sometimes too when I try to do things my way and that if we obey God and do things His way then everything else will fall into place (being a good person, obeying your parents, etc.)
These are precious times for me friends. I am so thankful that I am able to stay at home with the girls in this season of our lives. Today was a blessing. Even with all the added activity, everyone was happy (well mostly, there was a biting incident 
) and I was much more present with all the kids today. I had no plans until this morning to get back on a routine with school and it worked out beautifully. Thank you God! I took a picture of My today proudly holding up her first story (her 6 year old cousin who is her bff is very into writing stories), which she made out of magnetic words and letters. I can’t wait to share it.
I don’t have any plans for school tomorrow but we’ll see what the day brings.
This is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24
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