Why We Don’t Homeschool Through Summer
The house is quiet and it’s 8:30 am. The exhausted little baseball player is still deep in sleep recovering from the great effort and disappointment of lost championship game last night. The teenager is away at church camp.
The bright morning sun warms my chair. I enjoy an entire cup of warm coffee.
Mama robins hop across the yard closely followed by their speckled breasted young searching for breakfast in the grass. Baby rabbits munch on the sweet clover that we can’t seem to get rid of. The morning is peaceful. Life is good.
These are the mornings I love. Peaceful. Quiet.
These are the mornings that let me think clearly and breathe deeply.
These are the mornings when I feel I have time to think, breathe, and enjoy the peach and quiet.
I’m not rushing to prepare breakfasts or putting the last minute touches on homeschool lessons.
I’m not in the car picking one child up from a lesson and taking the other child to something else.
I’m not wondering how I’m going to get to everything on my gigantic to-do list today.
It’s summer. It’s life slowed down. It’s life lived closer to the basics.
It’s time to sleep in.
It’s time with family and friends, backyard cookouts, swimming pools, and baseball games.
It’s time to recharge batteries worn down from a long, hard winter of cold and homeschooling and life.
These mornings, this day, this time is why we need, why this homeschooling mama needs, a summer break.
Soon, we’ll all be itching to get back to a schedule and activities. When we do, we will be recharged and refreshed. The joy of learning will be back. I’ll be back to hurried mornings and cold cups of coffee that I reheat 6 times.
Life will be good then, too.
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