This is our 8th year of homeschooling. This is our 4th time to start fresh with a new student...a precious Kindergartner. Ready and eager to learn all I have to teach. But for the first time since the first time I am equally as excited to teach him. I am ready to play the games, work the puzzles, color the pictures, read to him and anxiously await the first time he will truly read to me.
I am honestly excited about school this year. It doesn't seem like a job this year it seems like a privilege. It doesn't feel like a "I have to" but rather a sweet and precious "I get to". I am so thankful and feel so incredibly blessed to be able to do what I do.
I am able to spend time with my kids. Watch them grow. See them have "ah ha" moments where they suddenly get it. Laughing with them, singing with them, dancing with them, and just being with them. I am in awe of my God. What a wonderful and mighty Creator I serve.
I realize that with our plan to send our children to school for high school I only have a couple years yet to spend my days with my beautiful daughter. I only get to share her learning experiences for 2 more years. Such a short amount of time when it seems only yesterday that she and I started on this homeschooling adventure together. She's been my ally, my cohort, my accomplice, my companion, my buddy, and my co conspirator. 2 short years. I must make the most of our time together. Love her. Cherish her. Teach her. Guide her. Prepare her. So that I can then Release her.
Father God, Help me to use every teachable moment. Help me to teach them in a way that will glorify you. Give me patience and gentleness, strength and perseverance. Hold me up, Lord, when my days seem too long. Help me hold it together when my days seem too short. -Amen
