{"id":208,"date":"2021-08-20T17:18:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T17:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/therestfulhomeschool\/?p=208"},"modified":"2021-08-20T17:18:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T17:18:04","slug":"you-threw-off-my-groove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/therestfulhomeschool\/2021\/08\/20\/you-threw-off-my-groove\/","title":{"rendered":"You Threw Off My Groove!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This content was originally posted at my Strength for Today<\/a> blog 4\/23\/14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Getting back into the groove\u2026maybe\u2026perhaps\u2026by next week? Any other home schoolers who took a Spring Break feelin\u2019 this? Ugh. Slow as molasses starting today, and each subject for the little girlie was backwards. Just so you know, homeschooling life is not perfect, even for those who have been doing it in excess of a decade.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, we forgot what direction our numbers go in. Today in handwriting, we decided to make up our own cursive letters\u2026in orange marker. Today, we were helpless in all ways in navigating on the computer. Today in grammar, the knowledge that any such thing as \u201copposites\u201d might exist mysteriously vaporized. Today, in an assessment, we felt the need to become a mime, and do all answers without words\u2026except when we needed to ask when we would be done. Today, we ran around the house like a banshee, in our continuing role as \u201cSooper Katherine\u201d, providing profuse narrative for every action, thought, gesture, and facial expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I ask for prayer in our schooling, and people just don\u2019t seem to get that I\u2019m serious. They see these snippets of this spirited, clever little girl, and think it is entertaining, engaging. They have never tried to teach her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, no\u2026things aren\u2019t perfect. We had more to do, but we\u2019re done, because I\u2019m done. Any more effort to persevere I think will cause brain cells to selectively begin to wave their little white flags\u2026for both of us. The synapses are twitching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And no, I\u2019d never consider sending her to school. She\u2019d never be able to be herself there\u2026it is simply too time consuming for a group setting. Secondly, she\u2019d end up being sent home as a disciplinary problem more often than not, so why not just keep her here in the first place?\u00a0\u00a0 Third, I can give her patience (most days) and the scriptural instruction that she needs to hone all of this quirkiness into the woman God wants her to be one day. They\u2019re not allowed to do that at school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

School is not about getting done. It\u2019s about getting US done. Not just the students, but the Mom, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katie\u2019s orange handwriting page today said, \u201cThe Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.\u201d  We are learning Psalm 23 by memory now that she\u2019s done with her A to Z verses. I shall not want. He has all the grace, patience, creativity, ingenuity, organizational skills, ability to interpret and discern, prioritize and triage\u2026He has all I need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that<\/em> the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is<\/em> no searching of his understanding. He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have<\/em> no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their<\/em> strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and<\/em> they shall walk, and not faint. Isa. 40:28-31<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m getting my ducks in a row for tomorrow. I want to remember to ask Him for all I need. I dare not do this on my own. The Mom, with God\u2019s grace, will prevail!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This content was originally posted at my Strength for Today blog 4\/23\/14. Getting back into the groove\u2026maybe\u2026perhaps\u2026by next week? Any other home schoolers who took a Spring Break feelin\u2019 this? Ugh. Slow as molasses starting today, and each subject for the little girlie was backwards. Just so you know, homeschooling life is not perfect, even…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,79],"tags":[6,2,184,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/therestfulhomeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/therestfulhomeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/therestfulhomeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/therestfulhomeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/therestfulhomeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/therestfulhomeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/therestfulhomeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/therestfulhomeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/therestfulhomeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/therestfulhomeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}