From a first time blogger, thoughts about life from an American missionary now living in the US after years in Russia and doing a lot of back and forth. Family stuff, Christian content, sports innuendo and lots of quotes from good books.

Thursday, September 29, 2005

First Day of School

At our house, we operate on a bit different schedule than most...of the world. Today was the beginning of the school year for us. After getting back from Russia 3 1/2 weeks ago, moving, getting settled in and such, we decided that September 29 would be the big day. Sure nuff, this morning, the kids woke up, we all had a big breakfast together, we prayed, worshipped, and then read a verse together before we headed out into this day. Now, "heading out" in our home is a misnomer. More correctly stated, after all that, we headed down to the homeschool room in our basement. Yup, we've entered the world of home schooling. We've long planned on this but just now are finally getting round to it in an intentional way. Pray for Traci as she is the chief in all of this. I'm a support guy any way I can be given work, travel, and not being nearly as good a teacher as she is. Day 1 is in the books though and we had a fantastic kick off to our school year. Possibly the highlight came when, about half way through the morning, Benjamin turned to Traci and said, "you know what I love more than anything else in the world mom? Home school with you as my teacher." Yeah, I think this is gonna work out just fine...

7 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

That is so sweet! I got a little tear in my eye. Although I have to say part of that may be thanks to pregnancy hormones ; ) I can imagine that Traci is a MARVOLOUS teacher...mom, wife!

10:08 AM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oops...that should read Marvelous ; )

10:11 AM

 
Blogger Matt Elliott said...

Hey -- don't you know you'll ruin your kids educationally and they won't have any social skills and they won't know what an extended middle finger means until they're in their twenties and Traci will be required by law to wear denim jumpers and white tennis shoes and you'll end up growing your own grain and plucking your own chickens?

*whew*

Glad I got that out of my system. Hope all goes well, guys!

BUY THE HOUSE ACROSS THE STREET FROM US! WE'LL HELP YOU PLUCK CHICKENS!!

4:00 PM

 
Blogger Rob said...

Yeah, so! That's our plan actually. As for the house across the street, where's my promised info? Got a website or something???

4:39 PM

 
Blogger Timothy D said...

I can't think of a better endorsement for home schooling than Traci & Rob have been doing ever since Benjamin's birth. It's all good and it all is about being educated about the real thing.

Traci has taken it to the next step with the book larning.

timdadpapa

4:21 PM

 
Blogger Phil said...

I can't wait for the kickoff to the Browne Magazine Sale. Those kids better be ready to pound the pavement. Mama's got her eye on some new shoes...sell! sell!

10:27 AM

 
Blogger Rob said...

I was a 2 time Thousandaire you know Phil. That was 7th and 8th grade though. Barely got my $285 the rest of the time at GAC. Not good memories...

11:31 PM

 

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