Longing for Days Gone By….

I really miss homeschooling my kids. This whole school thing is getting to me. We get up at 5 am(and those of you who know me, I know are impressed), leave at 6:45 pick up at 3 get home about 4:20…There is no family time left. Most days we have some kind of other activity and so we are rushing around trying to get back home so we can eat dinner and get in bed! What was I thinking?!? Why would I do this to myself? I feel like I am missing out on so much of their life. I love the look on their face when they discover something new as we are learning! I love curling up in the middle of the afternoon for a good long book while the baby climbs all over us! I love “doing art”, doing science projects, and what-not but most of all I love spending time with my kids! My kids are cool, I like to hang out with them. I LOVE being the one to teach them what they need to know.
Don’t get me wrong, when we homeschooled we had days where I felt like they were going to drive me to the nut house. Mostly on those days they were in a bad mood( or I was) and bickering all day..but that happens whether they are in school or not!
It was such a hard decision for us to make and we thought we were making the right one. I can see how Briana has grown, but would she have done the same at home? Ask my kids where they would rather be and hear the resounding HOME…maybe my kids like hanging out with me too.
They actually break out their old homeschool books out regularly and work out of them . They talk about missing their books because they are filled with things about God. They miss spending their entire day learning about our Lord while intertwined in all the other stuff they will eventually need to know. After all if He is not our focus, what point is there to life anyway? There is none! And how are they going to be able to run a home if they are never at home??
I really want my kids back…