Homeschool Diva

This year I have been very consistent with giving each of our children alone time each day, to think, create, sleep, talk to God. It has become an essential part of our daily rhythm. They all look forward to it, whether they think they do or not. They few times I have pushed it from the days’ activities, they have suffered.Let’s be honest, we all suffer! I see it in their attitudes and mine too. Our oldest no longer sleeps, our middles still sleeps about 3x’s as week and our youngest still naps most everyday, although I try to keep it short. Regardless, they get the privileged of having some alone space. We don’t nurture that enough in people today. It is okay and good to be still, quiet and alone.

There are a few new things I am adding into their routines. One of them being a deeper immersion into worship with music. I admit that I have not been drawn to “children’s worship” cd’s. They seem cheesy to me, however, the kids really enjoy hearing their own kind singing to the Lord. So I got over myself and starting investing in a few cd’s just so they hear children singing to our Holy God.

Today during quiet time I put a new CD on, and played it in the hallway outside of their rooms, as they worked away. After quiet time Jackson said to me, “Mommy, I really like that CD. It helped my creativity. Can we do that everyday during quiet time?”

So I am thinking - YES!

A little worship music goes along way to drawing children into the presence of the Lord. Little ones and big ones too!