The other night my son and I worked on a custom Twitter bird to link to my new Twitter account, and he has done an excellent job of working out what I wanted. It is really easy for me to visualise what I want, but describing it to someone else is a very different story, and I can’t even draw it. Sigh! I wish that I had studied harder during art class, but between my brain and my hand there really does seem to be a breakdown in communication. I’m so glad that my son takes after his great-nanna, and his art skills and design skills are excellent.

If you click on my Twitter bird icon in the sidebar, it will take you to my brand new Twitter account – technology, don’t you just love it?

Isn’t this Twitter bird just the cutest? Don’t you just love his spiky hair and the headphones?

This is a sample of our homeschooling day, although sometimes things don’t go exactly to plan. I used to really stress out when things didn’t exactly follow our plans, but I have learned that I need to leave time for God to work in and through our lives, and this isn’t possible if we I am too inflexible.

The formatting for this timetable I must attribute to Linda, although we have worked it out to suit our curriculum plan and our lives, so any similarities have long since disappeared.  My point is that we can learn so much from fellow homeschoolers, if we only take the time to “stop and smell the roses” along the way. I find it useful to have a timetable, as we tend to work better when we have planning and structure in our school life, and everybody knows what is expected of them.

In the Jewish home, the teaching of the law of the Lord was primarily the task of the parents, and the atmosphere of the home was supposed to be wholesome, the conversation – about God and His laws; and the teaching, diligent.

And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children,
and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house,
and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down,
and when thou risest up.
And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand,
and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house,
and on thy gates. Deuteronomy 6: 7-9

In the February edition of the newsletter from Australian Christian College there is a new graphic design course, so my son is very eager to find out more about this course and the credits that it attracts for his year 12 certificate. We might just find ourselves changing what he is studying, but I think that this would be a change for the better. He loves graphic design, and to be able to study something that he is passionate about and gain recognition for it would be a real God-send.