H is for Home…
I think it is quite important that the word home is the first part of homeschool. I love that we are able to learn at home and be together as a family. It is nice to be in a place where everyone is accepted for who they are. Each person has value. Each person is an integral part of our home.
We currently live in a smaller home. And for the three of us, that is just fine. Our home has charm, despite not being in perfect order. We are in a constant state of remodeling. Some days I don’t think we will ever finish anything in it. I seriously do not have even one room in this house that is finished. The outside seriously needs a paint job. However, the house has character and is filled with many happy memories. It oozes family. It is my grandparents home and is about 100 years old or perhaps even older than that. We have found the original log cabin that the house has been built around. I have some of the hand hewn logs exposed and plan to leave them that way. I feel it is an important part of history.
We have no room for a school room. So we school in the kitchen, and the front room. We have a bookcase filled with school books in the small hallway that encompasses the staircase. At the top of the staircase, I have another set of bookshelves that are filled with more homeschooling items. Then my “office” has a cabinet with school supplies. Pretty much school is throughout our entire house. I have been known to say that our house looks like a homeschool threw up on it. It is a pretty accurate assessment.
But even though we sometimes often have a mess around here, I can’t imagine not schooling at home. H is for Home…
