I tend to hear many different grandparents or parents of older children remind me to enjoy the moments with my kids because before I know it time is gone and they are grown up. I am a check list person and when it comes to homeschooling, one of my favorite things is to make sure I have taught and done everything on my check list. If I do something that is not on my check list, I like to write it down so I can check it off. It is good to be organized but I am learning to enjoy the moments that God gives me with my kids.
We try to daily have “Bible” time as part of our school day. We read the Word of God and I usually have some kind of character training book that we are going through. Right now the books we are reading through are Lee Strobel’s “Case for Christ” and a novel called “Sir Malcom and the Missing Prince”. We also like to read about different countries and pray for those countries as part of “Bible” time. All that to say, there are those whirlwind days when we get nothing done in homeschooling except Bible. I would get upset because we didn’t get to Math or Reading done that day. I didn’t get to check off everything off my list. But then I started to think about what I wanted my kids to have when they are done with this journey of homeschooling. I want them to love God with all their hearts and I want them to have a love for people. The different conversations that we have ended up having during Bible times have been priceless.
God is continually working on me and gently reminds me to enjoy the moments that I have in this journey with my kids. All the subjects in our homeschooling are important in helping our children in their journey through life and what God wants them to be. I love education, teaching and I will probably always love my checklists but I also don’t want to forget to delight in the moments that God gives me in this adventure I am on.
Living the Adventure 