This is our thirteenth year of homeschooling. What a journey, and what a blessing. I have so enjoyed spending my days keeping home and schooling my children. There isn't a day that goes by that I am not thankfull I made the decision to continue after my husband passed almost six years ago.
The years before were much easier. I didn't have to worry about how to aquire curriculum, because he always made sure I had what it took to get what we needed. It was easier because every once in a great while he would remember to tell me what a wonderful job I was doing. It was also easier because I had someone to answer to more directly than just my God.
During those years of hardship, I learned a lot about myself, and a lot about others. It's been a long hard journey for this precious family of mine. I learned what my weakness' were, and my strengths. Letting my family down in so many ways, and doing the best job I could do while trying to recover physically and emotionally. I learned what a wonderful gracious forgiving God we have. I am so grateful that when we fail, He is still there when we try to stand again.
So, as this beautiful family of mine starts its thirteenth year of the most wonderous journey, I can only be thankfull that my God is a good God. He never let's me down, even though I may feel abandoned. He is always there to carry me.
I look forward to busy days full of school work, homemaking, and field trips (our favorite part). The children look forward to the new things they will learned that they helped me pick, to ballet lessons, to Tae kwon do lessons, piano, guitar, flute, and to paper routes at 4 AM in the morning. I am not so sure about that one, but thirteen year old boys are always brainstorming about ways to make money for the many gadgets they want.
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