The New School Year: 2020 Edition

Welcome to the 2020-2021 school year. 

Who would have thought that our often questioned or bemusing choice to homeschool would become the new norm. Yet here we are, somehow veterans of this learning lifestyle, receiving requests for homeschool guidance. But they have no idea most days we're a pile of crazy people trying to get our act together to accomplish some semblance of schooling; I mean these pictures are exhibit A. 

So I tell them, it's ok to stay in jammies, guzzle coffee, and occasionally hide in a locked bathroom if necessary. But this lifestyle of learning is a gift, wrapped in pencils and crumpled notebook paper all over the floor, endless questions, and using Siri, a lot. It's a sunup to sundown blessing of fleeting time to invest in, learn with, and grow beside amazing people entrusted to you. Know somedays the textbooks won't even be opened and those days are sometimes when the most learning takes place. 

So without further ado, I give you this year's class...

Washington

University of Preschool

Majoring in Destruction Engineering with a Minor in Textbook Displacement 

Favorite Subject: Anything involving scissors and breaking pencils in order to sharpen them over and over.

Highlights: Flag Bearer for Pledge of Allegiance 

Voted: Most Likely to raid the pantry during brothers' Latin class

Madison

Kindergarten Princess Prep

Majoring in fashion design and unicorns

Favorite subject: anything involving writing with pens topped with feathery plumes

Highlights: Learning to read this year

Can count to 100 

An expert at covering anything with glitter

Voted: Most likely to be CEO of something involving pink, sparkles, and unicorns.

Wilson

Personality College of Wit and Design

Majoring in unspeakable joy and humor

Minoring in mathematics and second breakfast

Favorite Subjects: Anything that involves one on one time with mommy or a hands on application

Example: If there are three plates of cookies and each plate has 4 cookies how long until our cookies we are now craving are done baking?

Highlights: Mastering square numbers, learning to read chapter books, building catapults, and talking like a droid. 

Voted: Most likely to restore faith in humanity, spread Jesus' love, and eat all the Oreo's

Jefferson

Academy for the Smarter Than Their Mothers and Applied Mathematics 

Majoring in Logic and Intuitiveness 

Minoring in medicine, STEM experimentation, and Smash Brothers

Favorite Subject: Math, Science, not Latin, and snacks 

Voted: Most likely to ace Latin and end up loving it, leave an impression, diffuse a bomb, and be king of Dad jokes one day

Harrison

Too Cool for School High

Majoring in creative writing, Tolkien, and angst

Minoring in debate, of all the things, LEGO engineering

Favorite Subject: Writing, Science, Math, and being done with school for the day

Highlights: Learning to create and maintain a budget, starting a business, revamping the U.S. Treasury 

Voted: Most likely to lead a revival, talk the hind legs off a donkey, change the world

My class is pretty much amazing. This is a class full of world changers, routine shakers, and God chasers. Our "school day" begins and ends every 24 hours. Learning is a constant for all of us: when we are home, at the store, at the beach, or going to bed. We have and will always continue to make discipleship our priory with a side of book learning. And we'll do it all with messes, some not so good days, a LOT of coffee, and lot of laughs, and with the grace of God. 

 Happy 2020-2021 school year! 

//These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts. And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Deuteronomy 6:6-7//