Sometimes it's like Christmas around here.
Especially at the beginning of a new school year.
That's when we get all sorts of fun-
well, fun might be stretching it a little bit sometimes,
but at the moment it does seem fun-
all sorts of fun school things for the new year.
All the possibilities for learning and exploring and experimenting
in one middle-sized cardboard box.
(Not to mention everything we already have after how many years of doing this? 20?)
Of course, within a few months-maybe even weeks- I'll be hearing
"I hate this" or "I don't wanna do this"
(said with a very whiney voice-you know the one...)
so we'll bake cookies or go on a field trip instead.
The last thing I want to do is kill the love of learning
(which, I'm afraid, I have done at times in the past because I get too OCD about this)
so I try to shake things up a little bit to keep it fun.
And right now it is fun!
Abbie is old enough to be very self-directed
and has been enjoying her science
and her math (gasp! I may have found the right program at last!)
and geography
(I still say George-Earl's-oldest-girl-rode-a-pig-home-yesterday when I need to spell this).
Here's to a new school year.
May we have a grand time on the 2009-2010 journey.
