Gently Growing
Our time in Peru has been a good chance to slow down and be together as a family. It has been nice having Mike work from home, close by for lunch and game time. We have had some time to reflect on our life back home and hear God on a few things. Sometimes it takes being out of your local context for a time in order to understand it more fully.
With school, I have concentrated on basics while down here in Peru, along with some living literature about Peru to help the kids absorb the culture. (Have I mentioned recently how much I love homeschooling?) I am beginning to think through what to do for Chloe and Hudson (in terms of a gentle kindergarten/preschool) for them. I think we will begin that mid June or so.
I have been very intentional about moving slowly with school. I have really wanted take a good look at our family rhythms and evaluate what needed to be changed, developed and worked on. It has been a very fruitful time. Now that I have a fairly descent working rhythm with a strong understanding of where we are going, I am ready to add in some things that have been a little weak for me. (foreign language, consistent artist study and more intentional nature study).
I am enjoying the process of watching our family grow, our home-school grow, our children grow and mature. I am being mindful to stay present to where we are right now, and not think about 5 years from now (in a worried type of way). I am constantly holding in tension on the one hand allowing our children to completely enjoy their brief childhood as well as expecting older adult like concepts like doing your best and focus and attention to detail with school work and home chores.
So, like anything, I go to work on my “little garden” and am deeply enjoying the process of consistant work, weeding and nurturing what has been given to me. It is good for the soul.
