You Know The Peace

You know the peace you feel when you have made a decision that took many days, months, years of deciding on, and you know it was the right decision? I've got that peace.

After exploring a preschool for Hannah we have decided that we are going to go forward with homeschooling. It feels like the right thing to do, 100%. I think the program was good, the school seemed great, but something inside me made it clear that it wasn't right for us. Since then I have become very intense on researching curriculum, co-ops, ideas and planning. I am hoping to start a preschool co-op this fall, and join a homeschool co-op next fall which has programs for all 3 children. I am so thrilled about this. I have so much I want to share with my children, so much I want to teach them, so many experiences I want them to have, and I get to have those experiences with them. They will not be burdened with homework, held back by the group, feel stupid for being "behind" or have their natural love of learning be stifled by "the system".

This week we got started, and Hannah is loving learning. We studied Matthew 1 and talked about family trees. She created her own and also planted a small branch. We also enjoyed learning about wells and how they work, since we had our well worked on today. She was so into it, and it makes me really proud to see her hunger to learn and ability to understand such complex things at age 4. She's incredible, and although she is feisty and opinionated, she is an amazing kid. I'm so blessed to be her mother.