So, as you guys have read before I plan to start homeschooling my children this fall, and if you haven't read it already yet then hey, I plan to homeschool my kids and help give any insight to other homeschool moms about how I teach my kids and our day to day in teaching. I do not plan to buy any kind of curriculum and am hoping to try out just going by interest led. I have planned our year around the various jobs and the things my children love the most, such as -- my seven-year-old wants to grow up working with animals so we have based her main science around animals and of course we will continue learning the other parts of science and doing awesome experiments but since she wants to work with animals we are including quite a bit of animal sciences in. My son who is 11 has decided he wants to work more with marine animals and the ocean so we are including marine sciences in with his school work to help him learn more about what he would want his profession to be.

With this I feel like they are enjoying the thought of being homeschooled more because not only am I including their thoughts and the things they want to learn about in, but I'm also including the things that they are passionate about themselves. I really feel like since I am also having them express their likes that they are going to be more enthusiastic an excited to learn each day.

Being that I plan to homeschool them this morning I asked each to draw and write me a story of what they're most awesome summer vacation to be. Without too much problems each wrote four sentences with a littl coaching to write one more. They were well thought out sentences and only one misspelled word which really made me happy. But, seeing that it is summer and I am not trying to start schoolwork right now I thought that having this small amount of a brain workout would help them throughtout and they had to earn their electronics with this so, win-win for all of us.

Todays post is mainly about how easily it was for these guys to do some small amount of work for a summer reward and it showed me how excited I am to start homeschooling them this fall!

Live journals or whatever they're supposed to be called..

I read a few weeks ago that keeping a live journal was something that was very beneficial to your mind and well being... I mean I've kept a dream journal now for over a year and I know it really helps when I have those weirdly real dreams and how to decode them. The thing is is that I find it odd to write about my days whenever I feel that there has been no huge accomplishment or anything I need to decipher through. Why else should I keep a journal and write down that I woke up late, had a brunch, cleaned my house fixed some yummy vegan lasagna and then decided to call it an early night? This to me seems very odd to write about, but when I read about a live journal well, it was about writing down thoughts as they come, things you want to remember but usually never do. Things you want to do when the thought comes to mind quotes you hear and want to remember. It's basically just something to have on standby so that you don't forget the things you thought you would remember.

I thought this was the most brilliant idea ever, I mean I was like whoa why haven't I thought of that, I should have a book tucked away that would be perfect for that.

By the way, book tucked away is my term for --- I had seen a gorgeous journal in a store and I just had to buy it, not to write in it right away but it was too gorgeous to leave behind and I knew I would need it for something someday, I have probably close to 100, including some my mother had stashed away that I ran upon.

So, I've picked out my perfect journal to start writing in and I have it beside me, but I just haven't been able to pick it up yet. I don't know if its the taboo of not seeing the point in journaling, or the taboo that I have made journal books to be about preserving until the right thing... How will I ever know the right thing for a certain book?

I guess the point is, is that you may never know the right time for anything, there might be other variances that are making you prolong your decision but don't let that stop you from going after and doing what you so desperately want do to...

And now.... I journal


-Love and Light