Learning

We've taken a while off "school." We were plugging right along our checklists and then baby C arrived. and then Thanksgiving, RSV, Christmas, OBX, .... We haven't been checking as much off as just learning life. Here are a fewof the lessons we've been learning-
Like this morning when K brushed his teeth and didn't wipe out the sink. When I saw it later today, bits of food hardened on the sink. It took some scrubbing to get it off (and it was only a couple hours old). If he'd wiped the sink right away, it would have come right off. Isn't that how it is with our habits? The longer we have a habit, the harder it is to undo; the sooner we have off a bad habit, the easier it is to stop.

Along the same lines, to get rid of a bad habit, we need to put on a good one. "Take off the old man and put on the new man." James and I had gotten into a bad nightly internet habit- not bad things- mostly homeschool, parenting, farming, crossfit, ... but not using our time as well as we could. When we just said we're going to decrease that, we didn't do it. well maybe for a couple days. But when we started using a few nights a week to prep food for Whole 30, it was easier to stop that habit.

I think that internet could easily fit into the Bible verse: "the love of money is the root of all evil." The internet is not all bad- definitely good there but the love of it is not good. It can definitely become an idol. K and I had a special time together today reading One Thousand Gifts'  Afterwards, he made a birthday card for Aleena- a little girl fighting for her life, waiting a heart transplant. As we talked about how she could get a new heart, I thought there's no other place I'd rather be right now then here teaching kids about life. Same when we're reciting Bible verses, singing hymns, patting a baby's back, ...