WE are enjoying it....

Home educating is really agreeing with us. This is a picture of the kids at the Collingwood Children's Farm. We went there a few weeeks ago and the kids enjoyed checking out the animals and the beautiful vege gardens.

The home ed lifestyle is really agreeing with us. I am seeing the rhythm of our days change gradually and I am seeing the stress disappear from my kids. For me there is no more racing around to school and kinder pick ups and drop offs. the upside of that is that I have more time to actually BE with my kids. For those who wondered how I would manage being with them all the time, I am managing WAY better than I was when they did school and kinder.

We are beginning to meet some other families and that to me is also a great eye opener... that is seeing how their kids are... relaxed mostly and kind to us as new comers.

There are so far many upsides to home educating.

My Ivy is madly teaching herself to read by copying words out of books (she borrows Mauries spot books to do it) and constantly asking me how to spell things.

April has just started a ballet and tap class and is loving the 'typing tutor' programme on the computer. Her imagination is also returning as I see her play with her sister and enjoy just being a kid. :)