Glorious Rain, Awesome School Day

By Lynn, on October 25th, 2007

Do you know how glorious it feels to look out and see this:

That, friends, is a rain barrel overflowing.

We live in an area in the south that has been severely affected by drought. We have not had a rain like this in months! Literally, months. My plants are singing.

This morning’s school lessons were awesome. My 11th grade son is really not a boy anymore. He’s nearly a man. We learn together, like we always have, but I can’t really steer him like I did when he was little. We talk and interact. I am so very thankful, however, that he has an obedient spirit and he continues to indulge me in teaching him the things I think he should know.

We are into a more classical bent these days. The early years were relaxed and fun and pretty much unit studies and hands-on fun. Now, I am pushing Joseph harder to focus on languages and history. Our greatest gap is probably math, but I know we can conquer that as well. Perhaps math will be the icing on this delicious cake that has been the privilege of homeschooling a child.

We watched a VHS this morning about Greece and Rome.

I am itching to put a new timeline on the wall that highlights the great ages of history, but it’ll have to wait until tomorrow. I have to head out in about half an hour for work. I can go to work rejoicing over the rain and all we accomplished this morning.

I found a shelf at the thrift store that is exactly what I have been looking for. I have bookshelves all over the house, but I needed one area to unify the books and sheets and movies that we are working through currently. I love this tablestop shelf, which gives me a bookcase on top and a place to lay things underneath.

I look forward to reading with all the children tomorrow about history. I have an old text that I want to read to them from. We’ll learn more about all that today’s world took from the Greeks and the Romans.