Homeschooling Changes

Dear Kids,

I have been feeling a need to change some things up in our homeschooling. I'm still trying to wrap my head around how it needs to look honestly.

I just feel like we need a cleanse from everything we know. We need to cleanse our food, cleanse our souls, cleanse our education.

Luckily, warm weather is coming and we are going to be able to get out to the lake a lot more often. That is what I'm looking forward to the most. I want to be out in nature and let you guys just play, get in the sand and dirt, and enjoy everything around you. I'm excited to do that together again this spring.

Other thing I want to change up as well. I want more art. I want more celebration. I want more of all of those heart things = but I know that I need to mix that in with secular learning as well. Gabe doesn't have much longer until he is going to be doing lots of big kid schooling, and I feel like I have a sweet spot for the next year or so to just be together before he really starts to take off on his own stuff. I want to have those memories together and all of those experiences together.

I know you all want to earn more money as well - that is something I've been emotionally and energetically working on a lot. We need more income into our family and we might as well do it together so you can all earn more money along the way.

I also know that we have precious little time together. I'm feeling more and more of a draw to be doing so many projects together in order to really build your skills for life. I feel really good about how we are doing things in our home, I know that you are all learning how to work for what you want, and I'm so glad about that.

The other thing that just keeps coming back to me is to build your self concept like crazy. That I'm here to build your self esteem and how you feel about yourself, then the academics will come. That of course comes together with also doing spiritual lessons and having a foundation in the gospel. I know that Come Follow Me Lessons are some of the most important lessons to work on together. But that schooling is not just about "getting things done" - it is about emotionally being so involved in what we are doing that I don't even realize that we are accomplishing so much along the way.

I am so grateful for homeschooling. It is a refiners fire for me, and really for anyone who homeschools. Homeschooling refines the parent so much. There is so much for me to learn from - from YOU!

I love you kids.

Your Mom