My two fellows that share my life, know that I enjoy doing Five Minute Friday posts. They have grown used to me saying "so what does ______ word mean to you." I asked that this morning and both immediately (it was a chorus) TRAIL! I didn't find that particularly helpful for writing a post... so I set it aside as I got to work and let the word path/trail mull it's way through my mind.
What was I cleaning? The book room. This is the room with about half of our books are kept and where we do about half of our schooling, particularly the stuff the lad needs my assistance doing.
I've been working on it for two days (almost wrote years!) :) And I"m still not quite done. You know how it is, you rearrange things, remove books, go through items and say "HEY, If I have to move sometime in the next six months I AM NOT moving this particular book" and then decide "eh, let's toss it". That's kinda where I am at, trying to get rid of things that I know I can either google information on or find in the library.
As I worked I posted pictures on my progress. Someone said "I see a path".
I've been working on it for two days (almost wrote years!) :) And I"m still not quite done. You know how it is, you rearrange things, remove books, go through items and say "HEY, If I have to move sometime in the next six months I AM NOT moving this particular book" and then decide "eh, let's toss it". That's kinda where I am at, trying to get rid of things that I know I can either google information on or find in the library.
As I worked I posted pictures on my progress. Someone said "I see a path".
It got me to thinking, that this work I am doing is hard. Moving and rearranging, tidying and thinking about the upcoming school year.
Realizing that just as things looked and felt extremely messy at this stage in the cleaning, that a path was still visible.
And that made me think of other schooling moms out there, and schooling dads, who are in the trenches learning and teaching and discovering with their children. Parents who are going through the messiness of children making a mess, making mistakes, learning, growing, developing.
And all the paths we are making through it all. We make paths. Trails of learning, Pathways of development. It's what we do as parents and as teachers.
Continue building paths and encouraging new trails. It's a good thing eh?
Realizing that just as things looked and felt extremely messy at this stage in the cleaning, that a path was still visible.
And that made me think of other schooling moms out there, and schooling dads, who are in the trenches learning and teaching and discovering with their children. Parents who are going through the messiness of children making a mess, making mistakes, learning, growing, developing.
And all the paths we are making through it all. We make paths. Trails of learning, Pathways of development. It's what we do as parents and as teachers.
Continue building paths and encouraging new trails. It's a good thing eh?
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