The most notable thing about beginning homeschooling is that I'm having a chance to relive my education...and add to it.
While trying to make up my mind about homeschooling, I one day had this wonderful visual epiphany: The school bus pulls up in a nearby meadow, everyone else jumps on, and we are left behind in a field of dandelions. After the momentary panic, I realize we are in a field of dandelions, the sunlight straying through the leaves and the grasses, the gentle breeze soothing us with its subtle sounds in the tops of nearby maple trees. My boys immediately start asking questions about dandelions, bugs, clouds, we play, we read, and suddenly it is not the panic of being left behind but an education happening.
It's this vision I look forward to sharing with you as it fleshes itself out with each new day.
And I promise to 'get real' when I hit burnout in the dim, snow-buried months of winter here in Maine!
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