I'm Back

We've been back from vacation now a few weeks, but I just haven't been able to make myself sit down and take the time to blog.

I"m getting a picture CD made so that I can post a few pictures of our awesome vacation here. But until then, it's just me and these black letters that I continually type!

Summer is more than half way over here, soon school will start (public school anyway) and I"ll have to start shifting my focus onto home-educating my children.

I'm so profoundly thankful that I home-educate my children. Though often, I wish I were more organized with it all so that they could benefit more from it.

This time of year it is always the process of deciding what curriculum to use with the kids. This will be my 4th year of home-educating and every year, I hit this fork in the road: "What should I do differently this year? What curriculum should I use?"

I so want to give my children the best education that I can give them, yet I am so inadequate in some areas, in fact, I have, as of lately, been feeling inadequate in everything I do. I suppose it's just a normal case of "human-ness".

I have though of doing "Rod and Staff" with the kids, and now I am into another catalog called, "Veritas Press", it sounds so perfect, but the price is attrocious for this family.

My heart is willing but my body is weak.

I suppose you could come from the angle that if I wanted my kids to have a good education, to just send them to public school. While we do have a good public school here in town, it cannot match what family living provides for the experience of life. It absolutely cannot.

The things that the kids and I deal with and share with one-another everyday, are so priceless. Though, we have our ups and downs, it's all real and we try to learn how to work with one another.

The Lord put this group of people together for a reason and so we need to learn from each other as we move along life's highway.

I can look at my neighbors and see that they both work and they both have marvelous items to show off, but do they know their children? I can say that I positively do.

They know me, I know them. It's a beautiful thing.

I'm babbling.

~B