No.... it's January 14. Does this give you a glimpse into my average day? I started this blog and never finished it!
I knew it had been some time since my last post. I didn't realize it had been over a month!
To be honest, I have created several blog posts - in my head. Somehow, they never made it to the computer. It could have been a shortage of time, or just pure laziness. Perhaps I just thought no one was interested in our little lives. It's possible that my posts aren't just about homeschool, but life and the journey. Maybe I'm just a Debbie-downer. I can't say I have resolved to change that, but I will say that every single time I think about never doing this blog thing again, someone tells me how much they enjoy reading it. Usually, it's someone that I would never suspect of reading anything I have to say. God's cool like that.
I haven't really had much in the way of newsworthy reports! Everything has been the same around here lately. We took off for 3 weeks to celebrate Christmas. Let me tell you - we celebrated! I don't mean money and gifts - I mean time with each other. We started a new tradition this year of Christmas light scavenger hunts. It was a raging success and I think that mom and dad had as much (or more) fun as the kiddos!
One interesting piece of news happened in the coolest way the other day. We use 'The Mystery of History' in our classroom - and I must recommend it to anyone who loves History or wants to teach their child more than they will ever get in public school- It's a Christian curriculum that starts with creation and the first book goes to Jesus' cruxification. It links Biblical history and "world" history together. I'm going to admit that, growing up and until recently, I looked at the history book and the Bible as two separate things. It never once occured to me that the Bible was written as history was being made. This book brings those two together. For instance, did you know that the ancient civilization of the Sumerians had running water, libraries, schools and a government? Don't sweat it - I didn't either. One of the major cities of the Sumerian time was the city of Ur. Does that sound familiar? It should, if you know anything at all about Abraham. I always assumed that Abraham was born, lived and died in a tent. Nope! God told him to leave a nice home and comfortable surroundings to live in the desert. And he went!
One of our lessons last week was about Ruth and Naomi. It dealt with their culture at the time as well as the Biblical aspect of why Ruth really didn't need to stay and certainly didn't need to marry Boaz - she chose to out of respect. At the end of the lesson, we were talking about Ruth's lineage and how Jesus was in Ruth's family. I said "Ruth's son was named Obed, and Obed was the father of Jesse. Jesse was the father of ..." and before I could say it, Shelby says "David!!! And David was the father of Solomon and Solomon was the father of ...... um... I forget his name." (Rehoboam - who can blame her?).
I was shocked. Really - I was shocked. She reads her Bible every day for school and she's flying through the OT ... and to be honest, I thought she wasn't really getting much out of it. Obviously... I was wrong.
As I say all the time... who's really learning here?
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