It’s been a while!  Time flies and the sweethearts are growing along with it.  I am simultaneously hurrying from one adventure with them to another while also trying to slow down and breathe in each precious moment with them.  I can relate to the spinning feeling of the homemade tornadoes!

I noticed the following quote on my calender.  It’s been there all month but I finally saw it and  absorbed it today:

That sums up quite nicely why I can’t help but get out the camera each day, even as we do things that probably seem so simple to others.  I don’t see homeschooling as mundane or boring.  I see each learning moment, each frame with my kids as art.  Teaching them gives me scenes full of wonder as I look at the world through their eyes…with amazement…and excitement.  The world has magic and adventure.

I see them and their expressions and I am reminded of how I want to see the world, new and amazing…

Here are some pictures from today’s adventures.  The pictures may look redundant to some but I see the sparkle and joy changing in their faces like a ripple from second to second as they watch their own glitter-filled tornadoes spin…

There are still moments as a woman where I wish I was doing “more.”  I have songs not  yet sung and books not yet written.  And maybe some distant day it will be the right season for those adventures. Too often I realize it’s been one day too may since I showered and I still haven’t gone in and had my hair trimmed like I planned or cleaned my house like I planned…but I have done so many better things that I couldn’t have planned.  Because you can’t plan a perfect, precious moment with a child.  You just have to be there, present, to catch it.

In finding the quote I did today I was led to another: