As the "keeper" of the home here on our tiny spot of the world I sometimes sigh in dismay that the other members of the house hold aren't as "enthused" about tidying up as I am. To be sure, I'm not a place for everything and everything in it's place kinda person and my night side table is a testament to that little fact. However, from time to time I find myself grimacing at the untidiness that loves to encroach on my peace of mind.
As a homeschooling family we live and learn in our house quite a bit. We're coming off of a three week track of winter weather and family illness so we've spent even more time "living and learning" indoors. It's easy to forget that learning is rarely tidy or contained. "Kid" clean is a concept I've learned to embrace. If Ranger and I want to teach our kids about helping out in the family we need to accept lumpy "made" beds, spilled milk and cereal as Scout gets his own breakfast, and the newly arranged family room complete with bed sheet couch covers designed by Pen. This doesn't include art projects, papers, books , toys and all the other things that go with homelearning.
Last week I snapped this picture at the end of our school day. The odds and ends of a day of memory work, art, math and science are scattered from the dining room all the way into our living room. You can see Scout in there. He's holding a camera that he'd been using to take all kinds of pictures that day. Truly, at the end of the day (even though it was a great day for school) I was tired and ready for some recharge time that didn't included orchestrating and implementing a clean up plan. Instead I took a few moments with my camera to capture the buds of learning that happened that day.
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| Learning is rarely tidy. |
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| Books, music, pictures and games are always being "checked out" from the family library. |
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| Aunt Cara got Pen, our amateur gardener, a forced bulb kit for Christmas. She checks it daily. |
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| Scout built this by following the picture directions. Way to go, Scout! |
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| Typically this is where I find my kids after the school day. |
Great pieces for family history. Love the nicknames. Would love to hear everyone's nickname and how they came to be. Love your term "Kid Clean". Though we don't have any full time kids here in senior land, we too seem live "Kid Clean". Maybe that's the "frosted mini wheat side of us" refusing to leave. Looking forward to seeing Pen's bloom.
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