So, today I’m posting something for the 8th day of 31 Days I actually wrote on August 14th…. Yes, I am that behind {or maybe at that point I was too far ahead? 😀 HA, especially since that was before the election – I couldn’t see straight, let alone be ahead of ANYthing!}
Each day for the last week I’ve planned to “take” some types of learning tests about my kids & I. I haven’t tried this since they were too little to really answer for. I figured I’d like to see how the curriculum I’m planning to make use of fits {or not} before starting.
Well, you learn really interesting things when you check some of those things out — I’ve always known I had to see it, hear it, & do it in order to “get it”. So what did I learn? I learned we are all visual learners; Christine and I were really close with Kinesthetic & Visual and Auditory was no where close. {her: strongest in Visual; me: strongest in Kinesthetic} Vince was so strong in Visual that it was 19 points to Auditory for him, and almost no Kinesthetic. Interesting. I love this kind of thing. What will I do with the info? I.have.no.idea. However, I do have a little more understanding of what those three terms mean now. 😀
For example: I know now why I frustrated Vince soooo much when he was in Kindergarten {uh, yes that was 10 years ago!}, oh bless our contact teacher’s heart for stopping me. She did it so lovingly I didn’t even know I was the problem. She blessed our family with the gift of continuing homeschooling because she encouraged me to let him be. Let him learn by what he is interested in. I was “doing” Thomas Jefferson education before it was the popular way of doing things. Much to the dismay & speculation of many around me. I’m here at the other end to tell you – IT WORKS! Because I restrained myself, he doesn’t hate school. Because I didn’t force what he “had” to learn, he wants to learn. Christine isn’t quite to the wanting to learn stage, she’d still draw and listen to stories.all day.every day. However, she doesn’t have a ton of self-discipline…so we’re working on character building. Some days, that just looks like — “is this the best use of time?” Also, I’m super excited to use Well-Planned Day’s software this year. I anticipate a whole lot less of my asking, “did you finish…?” – because they’ll have the power to pre-answer me by finishing & checking it off……oh, I love lists. 😀
So….a little bit of update since I wrote the above. Vince is totally into his education this year. It is awesome! We have a new member of the family {more on this later}. The schedule for the school year includes 3 music lessons, 2 youth groups, 1 math class, 1 science class, 1 gymnastics class, and I’m in a Bible Study this fall. We are running. A lot. {Even with 2 piano lessons & the science class here at the house.} This is way more than I like for us being scheduled, but that is the time of life we’re in I guess. We’ll see what next semester will hold – I believe we’ll be down the extra math class. We’ll still be out 2 nights/week and everything other week is 3 nights out. I’m a serious home body, this has been an adjustment for me.
These are good pics of each of “my” kiddos this year. I love them so much. So much it hurts. I know there are not such great days, but in the grand scheme of life – do all those petty issues really matter? I am reminded again, how very fortunate we are.
We have a warm house.
We have food on the table/in the fridge/pantry.
I have a reliable van, and gas in the van.
We have our family.
Yes, we have so very much to be thankful for. There are so many things in the wings I can’t wait to share, but I have to wait for the right time….
I can say I have decided to drop the idea of having a web design business – I HATE the technical side. I just want to do the design part. I broke down & just bought a theme, rather than trying to figure out how to edit the original one I bought {that I really didn’t like, but thought I’d be able to edit}. I’m still doing lots of messing around with the looks {why are there double headings?!!!!} & cleaning up all the posts converted over from Blogger — that whole category vs tag thing, what a mess!
