Blessings

God is so good... so faithful.

I've been... what word to use... anxious? lackluster? intimidated?... about homeschooling. I don't know if everyone else feels it, but I definitely feel this pressure to do everything that everyone else is doing. And this anxiety that I don't have the "experience" to teach my kids, whether it be having been homeschooled personally or having a teacher's training. It's totally not that I don't want to do it. It's just a host of emotions that I've been experiencing the last month or so while other people's kids are SO excited to go back to public school, and other homeschool families are enrolling at Valley Academy (public school supplement to homeschooling). We are still doing Co-op, but everything else is just at home.

Anyway, Thursday I took the girls to the bank to sign some papers for co-op ('cause I'm the treasurer this year! Yikes!) and the lady was asking Melia about school. I was so blessed by Kiera's enthusiasm when she pipes up "We do homeschool!" Then the lady talked a little bit about how her son begged her at a young age to homeschool him, but she didn't. And later that same day at work another gal was telling me about how her son had begged her to homeschool him, but that she didn't because she didn't feel equipped.

Today I finally got the overall understanding that God is providing me with encouragement. Both these ladies seemed like they regretted not homeschooling their kids, and here I have the opportunity to do this, from the beginning, with plenty of time to find the process that works while still enjoying the time with my children. Plus, the whole point is not to raise the smartest kids in the world, but to raise up our family to LOVE and FEAR and OBEY the Lord! Amen!!!!

HE is Good and Faithful, and we are Blessed!