Where do I start?

I obviously do not rock at the blog maintenance part of life.  Somehow it seems like my family needs food and clean clothes a bit more often than I have time to talk about it. =)  Anyway, I'll try to give the best nutshell version of our boring life around here.

You may have heard something about a small undertaking we are pursuing lately.  That being a year of living and working at the Choma Music Academy in Zambia, Africa and partnering with the ministry named Poetice.

Boring right? =)

With that on the hopeful horizon we also have made the decision to homeschool Jaedon this year.  Oh the poor first born guinea pigs kids!   My thought process went something like this:
"Hmm... homeschooling in Zambia next year. 4 kids. Ok. Never did that before. Never lived in Zambia before. Huh. Maybe I should give this homeschooling thing a try in my own country first?!"

So we talked, and prayed then talked some more. A lot more.
I had a very sweet homeschooling friend of mine who gave me very wise words.
Stop talking and start listening.
Parenting is a gift. Homeschooling is calling.  And one thing we keep coming back to as we explore this whole Zambia thing is we do NOT want to be doing ANYTHING that is not led by God.  Been there. Done that. Will probably do it again but we are (slowly) learning to listen to the Lord in each decision...big and small.
So, I stopped asking everyone their opinions and starting asking God his.
Smart eh?
and I found the answer.
Peace.
That's the only way to describe it.
I should have felt completely frazzled.  Here it was 5 weeks until school starts and I'm making THIS decision now? What curriculum should I use? How does this even work? Is this legal? =)
But no... I felt peace.  Unexplainable unless you know the Prince of Peace right?

As for my social bug Jaedon? (who also is a HUGE one-on-one time, quality time kid) LOVES the IDEA of it.  I know right? It'll sink in soon enough.

So we've launched this week.  Not perfectly but well.  I believe the honeymoon phase lasted approximately 17 minutes but that's ok.   We will both be on a huge learning curve with lots of successes and mistakes along the way.
After all, failing sometimes is the greatest teacher. Lucky me!

 (We are studying the Books of Moses and Egypt was our focus this week.  This is Egyptian "candy"...dates, honey and almond meal or as Jaedon liked to say "gross" until he ate it. ;)