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This has been the best summer as a family.
We are not doing school, Our minds are taking a break.
The most fabulous thing has happened. Since we are taking a break, the kids
are voluntarily learning things because they can and these things are their own ideas.
Pocket microscopes were discovered in the science kit for next year and everything
has literally been studied at 120x. Some of it has been drawn. Lots of conclusions have been
made and then lots more things looked at. Ordinary things like dust, dead flowers, hair, game pieces.
This has reminded me of so many things. There's always more there than what we see at first glance.
There are so many wonderful things God will show us.

I'm also taking a course on writing currently. It's an Institute For Excellence in Writing course. Teaching Writing Structure and Style. I am only a few lessons in and I have already gained so much empathy for my kids. I'm having to do the assignments I am going to assign them. I showed one of our kids something I had written and he exclaimed things like this: "Mom, YOU marked things out?! You marked stuff out! You do that when you write?!!" and "You misspelled things??!! I had no idea you did that!" He was so relieved that he wasn't the only one that "messed up" or misspelled. I was so thankful that God showed me not to be so critical of the efforts they make. I'm so prideful.