Live a Meaningful Life

Tomorrow is the day...the day we officially start our homeschool journey! I am excited that I can finally start putting all these ideas that have been flooding my brain since last October into practice!  I am calling Thursday and Friday our practice days--I have got to figure out how Jackson is going to incorporate into it all!  If it were up to me, he would just continue with his play--but I know that is wishful thinking--he wants to do everything his "bruda" is doing AND he is probably the most excited about starting "class!"  I am not a fan of preschool academic instruction (for children who live in impoverished environments--I think it is great) but all the other children--I think 5 years of imagining, creating, and figuring things out is much more valuable.  The school system is finally beginning to realize these concepts are pretty important--in most cases more valuable than being able to spit back out something memorized.  I excelled in school, college, a...

"Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage I've ever gained from being in a hurry. But a thousand broken and missed things, tens of thousands, lie in the wake of all the rushing...Through all that haste, I thought I was making up time.  It turns out I was throwing it away."  This is a quote I have read over and over in the book One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp. I agree.  In hindsight and just from living every day, I have enjoyed more and live more fully when I was still--in the moment, fully present.  It seems I find myself in that battle often--the things that need to be done, the things I want to do, the pleas from the boys to come and play...time.  We often complain that we do not have enough, but God gives us the exact amount of time He purposes for us.  It is my responsibility to use it wisely.   Have you ever been present in the room with someone-ev...