Homeschool Diva

If you don’t know yet from reading this blog, I am fairly passionate and honest about what I think and believe. The last year has been a huge learning process for me. I started this blog, all by myself, in order to force myself to do a few things. One was to become a bit more technologically proficient without needing my husbands help every time I turn on the computer. Well, I am not where I want to be but I am light years form where I was. Another was for me to think through and articulate my thoughts about life, love, homeschooling, parenting, our family, our faith community, and following Jesus in my own words, without letting my brilliant husband do all the deep thinking and talking for me. Not that he tries to, but I tend to let him. I think it is natural for most women to hide behind their husband, so this blog has been my attempt to grow and learn and be stimulated by him and not intimidated by how well he thinks and writes etc.

Well, not to toot his horn for him, but he has some brilliant posts here, here and here. Read them for yourself. I was honored a few weeks back when he asked me to consider moving my blog over with him on our what is church site. I was shocked really. When we first moved to South Florida, the what is church site was our little flag in the vast, barren land down here. It was a small, feeble, unseen, seemingly unsuccessful attempt to see if anyone out there was thinking about some of the same things. Well, that little website found a few dear souls(both locally and globally) , who were and are thinking the exact same things that we now journey with today. They are our faith community, our allies, our friends. In the beginning the what is church website was designed to tell our story and along the way a church was born. It is an amazing thing to see 7 years later, a sustainable faith community has developed, that is not dependent on any one set of peoples effort to make it work. It just works. I can’t explain it. God did it and is doing it, not any one of us who call it home. It doesn’t need us our our story to float it along. It has its own story, its own life. We are as much a part of it as any other person who calls our little church home. We are all learning, loving, growing together and passionately putting discipleship to Jesus above anything else. Mike is still reworking and writing some pieces for the what is church site, and tweaking some technical things as well as finishing the book he is writing. It is a huge work in progress. We are raising a family with three small children, working bivocationaly and sharing our life with our church family, so there are not many hours left in the day to do essentially a full times job worth of work. So be patient it will come. (I am really speaking to myself here) So,I say all of this to say, I will be renaming and moving this blog in the next few weeks. Mike and I feel like it is now time to dig into more deeply all it is that God called us here to be and do. Not that we havn’t been doing it up until now, but that there is a special season opening up that we are willing to step into. So that is what is kicking around here. I will keep you all posted on the upcoming change. Thanks for letting me share my heart.

Peace to all~

We will “school” through the summer. Let me explain. Life is learning and we never stop that, and our kids like to do things with me and with each other all the time, so I will keep doing what we have always done and some people may call it school. I just call it lifestyle learning.

So - we will work on building beautiful art together this summer. Develop team skills by playing tons of “together” games, that sneakily use math and reading skills in order to play. Learn a bit more about map reading with an around town treasure hunt and develop real world math skills be creating a small store and selling items in the store. We will find little objects around our house, price them and use play money to buy them from each other. Oh boy we may even do it under the dinning room table and add the fort component in. (People it is HOT here in the summer and we need tons of indoor things to do!) In addition we will reread some of our year one favorites out loud again, like Pinocchio and King of the Golden River, and work on our writing skills by corresponding with our compassion children. All fun, all learning, all school.

It is getting very hot and sunny during the mid-part of the day, so we need to do indoor activities to stay our of the sun. Anyone have any other ideas?

We are off to have our quiet time and then make banana bread this afternoon. The kids have asked me for the last time, “What are we going to do with these black bananas in the freezer Mama?”.

Peace to all bakers today!