So this is what the end of the year looks like. Yep, that’s right. It starts out so organized, so……clean. Then this is what we’re left with. Books, notebooks, flashcards, science experiments, you name it. It is EVERYWHERE. I’m standing here looking at it today with a smile. I can’t even believe it myself, I’ve been somewhat melancholy as of late, thinking of the end of our journey at home. But today, I’m surprisingly happy.
We have decided all in all, to send the kids back to school. It’s been a heart wrenching few months, and lots of emotions have been explored, but we have made our decision. And today, I’m happy. I’m happy about all the fun things we’ve done over the last few years, I’m happy about all the things we’ve learned together…the laughter, the multiplication facts, the positive and negative integers, building potato clocks(that’s right. A clock made out of a potato….). But mostly, I’m happy about the time. The wonderful, beautiful, precious time God has given us to share as a family growing up, maturing, evolving. I think blissfully of the mornings we are all piled in the bed in no particular hurry to rush into life. Those are the BIG moments we remember. I’m thankful to have had that time, and I would do it again in a heartbeat.
But now my thoughts roam to the coming years, the homework, the chores, and all the exciting things that school has to offer. Making friends, joining clubs, swing choir, sports….it will go by in a blink I’m sure. So today, I’m happy. Today, I’m ready for the future. Today……I pray for them both. I pray they live beyond themselves. I pray they include and love others, I pray they don’t make the same stupid mistakes that we did. I pray we’ve given them a solid foundation of which to live. And today…I’m happy.
