I have a schedule up on my door. It looks like this: 

Honestly, if we treat each day as a way to help train up great souls, the lessons will be rich and varied. The academics, truth be told, take way less time than learning to get along, learning to be responsible, learning to be creative, learning to serve joyfully. (This is an AWESOME blog post to check out. http://www.tjed.org/2015/11/inspiration-smoothies-good-day/) 

So, moving past schedule to location. Here is more of what it looks like. When I first envisioned homeschooling I thought of a classroom and how I could make it as much like that as possible because I LOVED my classrooms growing up. I hoped my home-school room could look like this: 

Isn't that beautiful?

But it turns out that a beautiful room like that is the path to the dark side for me. When I tried to make a space like that, I ended up trying to teach by shoving things into my kids' heads and it was just a whole lot of power struggle. We only learned that I am a control freak and my kids hate being controlled. 

and here (if you look below those BIG guns, you will see the kitchen counter that they are "sitting" at):

It is time to reject that lie from Satan, and to see and understand clearly really WHO we are. It is time to learn about and own the precious gifts that God has given us. We can do all this and then humbly point to Him who it all comes from. Only then can we begin to know what it really means to “be humble.”

Reading with Daddy

• “how many forks do we need to set the table?”
• “how much time do we have left until we get to go to the park?”
• “how much money do we need to bring to the store for that toy?”
• “how old will Sasha be when Peja is 18?”
• “Do you want your sandwich cut in ½ or in ¼?”
• “If we have 12 candies, and 4 people to split them evenly with, how many do each of us get?”

These boys are ready for anything life throws at them. LOL