One Reason To Homeschool!
RELATIONSHIP!
I don’t say that lightly. I mean that deeply. Maybe it is because pursuing relationship is extremely important to our family as a whole. Not just with our children but with real live people who walk and talk and have issues and need healing and need friendship. Mike and I have always wanted our home to be a haven for anyone that God has in our life. The fabric of relationship that is woven here is more important than my routine or the things we have in our home. The house is just a tool for the real living that is happening.
It is important for us to immerse our kids in a lifestyle of building into people in a natural, non-programmatic way. They don’t understand why we always have people over in our home, or why Mommy stops and talks to neighbors a lot or why we throw parties. Lot’s of parties. It is just part of their life.
Tonight we had our neighbors over for dinner. This is the first time we have actually had neighbors that said “yes” to us. We’ve asked before in other neighborhoods but no one would take us up on it. It was lovely, relaxed, natural. All of our children stayed up late playing. Very late by our normal bedtime standards. But I could do 2 things. Stick to the schedule because it is more important than diving into people, or two, ditch the schedule in preference of relationship. We ditched it!
Because of what it happening with the economy, none of use are moving anytime soon in our neighborhood. For that I am thankful. I am digging in and looking to build bridges all over in the neighborhood. So our children will sleep in tomorrow. I will start schooling a little later. I will choose to have a lighter load tomorrow. I don’t have to jump through hoops tomorrow to get them up, dressed, fed and off to school by 8. Life is short! Minutes pass too quickly. People (even the little people who live with you) are too valuable.
