Schooltime

School starts at 9 AM and is usually wrapped up by noon.
However, "learning" happens from the time we're up to the time we all fall into bed, exhausted. Okay, the kids go to bed reluctantly, my husband and I fall in to bed. :)

The glimpse of a grasshopper becomes a lesson in biology.  Cooking lunch leads way to mathematics.  A question about outer space starts with science fiction and ends up with astronomy.  Being with my children all day is not difficult, it is normal for us.  We enjoy each others company.  And it provides the opportunity for constant learning. 

More than just the 3 R's, we are teaching our children how to live.  We are imparting to them our morals, our values, our habits. 

Something happens when I nurse.  She latches on, we settle in, and I am immediately flooded with an overwhelming love.  Time and time again I am surprised my the intensity of this emotion.  Everything fades away and it is just her and me.  Moments before I was bustling- cooking, cleaning, washing, bathing, wiping... but now all is calm.  I stroke her head, and whisper, "I love you."  There is nothing like the bond of mother and child.