Sometimes it’s easy to get bogged down. There is a lot of suffering in our lives. When you are a grown-up you are aware of death, illness, financial pressures, addictions, consequences that effect not only your immediate family but your extended family, your friends. And if you are involved in a church, then your church family, too.
I am living my life day in and day out with small children. Which means that I have an advantage. I get to see and hear joy everyday. (Oh and lots of whining and snot, too.) Since we homeschool, we are together most about 99% of the time. My closest girlfriend told me today “our kids live our lives with us.” That is so true.
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| Sometimes school looks like this. |
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| Parker putting small straw pieces into a container. |
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| Katie doing a bean counting activity. |
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| Theodore using a key to shred scrap paper. |
Most of the time, what I consider learning takes place after we put our seatwork away. Foster loves to plan, imagine and design any kind of machine, boat, truck, etc. Yesterday with the help of Theodore and Katie (who were taking orders from him) they came up with this –
A pick-up truck. They figured out how to tie two shoelaces through the holes on our Bilibo to the handle bars of Parker’s little 4-wheeler. I was very impressed!
Because I get to live life with these kids everyday, I am in the most thankful season of my life. I feel like the world could be falling down around me but because of their innocence, their thirst for adventure, their uncompromising love and loyalty – I am able to praise God for all that He has given us.
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| Our Thankful tree. |
All the Little Grubbs 
Sweet post…I like your thankful tree. It's awesome to see them fill up…it reminds us how much we really do have to be thankful for. Hope you and your family have a great Thanksgiving!
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