This Rugged JoyFull Home

I received this shared email yesterday from one of my yahoogroups and thought it would be worth the calculating and sharing on my blog. As I read through the entire article, I can't help but mentally auto-convert the dollars into peso figures,that's around 1:50 to be safe. Each time the writer says something about worth or value of a particular task a homeschool mom can do, my heart beats faster as I realize how much we have already invested on our family's future over the last five years.  I thought of Proverbs 31:10-31 as I pondered on how much am I really worth as a stay-at-home with kids Mom. This calms me: "A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies.  Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value.   She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life.  She selects wool and flax and works with eager hands.  She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from afar.  She get...

I have decided earlier this morning that today would be not just another day for us. It's going to be a day filled with exciting activities on Botany with my Euy (pronounced yoo-wee). She waters her herbs in the light hut and stare at them and probably wonder why there are still no sign of life to her plants 3 days after she planted them. She updates her nature journal and collects dried flowers and leaves to add to her collection. She sets breakfast table for three and really does them well. Goes to her Times Tables Chart and does her Math drill orally while in her hoola-hoop. Answers a few pages of her Singapore Math and just like before, does all her worksheets with less supervision and a few negligible mistakes.  Just yesterday she was telling me that she thought she would be ready to do lessons on square roots. And while she really loved multiplication and division and solving word problems, she wanted to do harder adult stuffs already because she loves challenges. Sometimes...