We're "back to school" though we never really left.
(Our big {teeny} kindergartener this year, sweetest Nova!)
Each year we grow more relaxed and year round in our homeschooling approach and this year is no different. Add SEVERE nausea from blessed little surprise baby in my tummy and we have a recipe for homeschooling the most natural of ways.
(Big siblings are giddy about their new little brother or sister on the way!)
I'm sure I'll be back to my old self again in about a month...Just about the time our two
new precious ones will join us home from China. And the cycle will rinse and repeat.
Go with the flow...THIS is why we homeschool...
...To live and love and create and play and research and read and learn all the while...instinctively.
Oh yes, good to remember.
The point is to go at our own pace and absorb the countless learning opportunities that ebb and flow
throughout life at home together, well outside the spectrum of workbook/textbook learning.
(What would I do without my dinner helpers?!)
Truly, THIS is why we homeschool.
(India...one of our most helpful preschoolers.)
And so, indeed we're "back to school" (though we never really left) and we're learning and growing in beautiful ways each day.
(Thanks for your photography, Aida!)
I thank the Lord for these days...the ones where miniature people climb all over me and big siblings teach little ones ABC's,
where paints and crayons are on high rotation and the sky is the limit to what a day might hold.
THIS is why we homeschool and I can't imagine it any other way.
(Learning Mandarin Chinese with Mei Mei.)
So we say goodbye to summer's end.
It's been a ball as always...
...and we look forward to a bright new year full of laughter and LOVE!
September brings us new beginnings as fall finds it's way to our hearts.
We welcome in the year ahead, acknowledging after all that it's nice to be "back to school".
"For everything there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven."
Ecclesiastes 3:1