True Love - partnership - friendship - happiness

You know it`s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you are not part of their happiness.



Have you ever taken a look at the person beside you? Your partner, Husband/wife, Lover, friend. I mean that one person that combines it all. When I look at my husband I fall in love with him over and over again.

We are together now for 18 years and I still can remember the first kiss gave me on my forehead when walking me home one afternoon. I can actually smell the spring flowers and hear the water flowing past us on that spring day of 1994.
All the little things we did and still do for eachother, make out our connection. But one thing has changed in those years and that is "the knowing - feeling" -  sometimes he finishes a sentence I started and sometimes he feels how I feel and just knows I mean yes to things when i actually say no. We are in a way like one person.........

Being together just became for me that rocksolid moment where you just feel really cemented into the earth once and for all.
You are just so tethered to that guy that means the most in the world to you.
Your marriage should be the cornerstone, your bedrock, that place where all great things grow from. I have found just that and all this in combination with lots of laughter and houmor makes it perfekt.
If you are still searching please take this little note as proof that it is out there. Maybe even closer than you think..

xxx

Homeschooling mummy “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” ~ Albert Einstein

 

yes, that is what I am a homschooling mummy of four. And I have been doing it since 2005. Back then when we went on holiday and saw families taking breaks during school, I always asked myself - "How do they do it"? and now I am on that side facing all sorts of questions and comments. 

The other day my daughter drove into town with a friend and her mother. The friend asked if her mother had ever thought about homeschooling her. The mother said " oh dear, I just could not be as kind and patient as N.J. she sure must have the patience of a saint".

Now that comment got me thinking. Do I have more patience  than anybody else? I came to the conclusion that this is a path we have taken and of course at the beginning I wanted to do everything right so I - like any parent - overdid it. I played the teacher.

However, this did not last very long. The kids moslty just wanted me to read to them and sit and have tea. And that is what we still do today. We sit, talk, read, talk again, go for walks and explore things together.  Children pursue life, and in doing so, pursue knowledge. They need adults to trust in the inevitability of this very natural process, and to offer what assistance they can.
 
All our kids read - alot. So, in a way i dont worry too much. Of course even I have my days where I do worry but I have still never regret homeschooling them in the first place. Because the time we spend together is so full of quality and love that I would not want to miss that. 
And that is really all you have to do as a parent, just love and trust them.

John Holt once said "There is no difference between living and learning... it is impossible and misleading and harmful to think of them as being separate.” 

And now I am off to read to my kids.

xxx xxx 

I received alot of feedback on some of my posts and most of you said, that I should be writing more. Now the Summer has passed and has changed places with wet autumn and so there is no excuse whatsoever. The only thing could be that I just don't find the time to actually sit down a the computer and write.

I write in my journal every morning. I get up early and have that time to myself and no, it is not the same as writing on the computer. It is actually like meditation. I need it to an extend. The thought of putting on the computer to write something would not occur to me in the morning.
What other excuse could I have for not writing, well that part of being of mother of four must count. And of course being a homeschooling mother of four gives me extra points, right?
So, here I am again. I will try and write more and be more committed.

Tomorrow I will write about this: "how can she home school all those kids, she must have the patience of a saint".......You have no idea how many times I have to listen to this. So, feel free to email me ybout your experience.

Till then relax and enjoy your kids.
xxx xxx

Ok, I give in.....

 

I received alot of feedback on some of my posts and most of you said, that I should be writing more. Now the Summer has passed and has changed places with wet autumn and so there is no excuse whatsoever. The only thing could be, that I just don't find the time to actually sit down at the computer and write.

I write in my journal every morning. I get up early and have that time to myself and no, it is not the same as writing on the computer. It is actually like meditation. I need it to an extend. The thought of putting on the computer to write something would not occur to me in the morning.
What other excuse could I have for not writing? Well that part of being of mother of four must count. And of course being a homeschooling mother of four gives me extra points, right?
So, here I am again. I will try and write more and be more committed.

The end of this week (I am not going to even say tomorow cause then it will turn out to be the most craziest day ever) I will write about this: "how can she home school all those kids, she must have the patience of a saint".......You have no idea how many times I have to listen to this. So, feel free to email me about your experience.

Till then relax and enjoy your kids.
xxx xxx

ok I give in....

I received alot of feedback on some of my posts and most of you said, that I should be writing more. Now the Summer has passed and has changed places with wet autumn and so there is no excuse whatsoever. The only thing could be that I just don't find the time to actually sit down a the computer and write.

I write in my journal every morning. I get up early and have that time to myself and no, it is not the same as writing on the computer. It is actually like meditation. I need it to an extend. The thought of putting on the computer to write something would not occur to me in the morning.
What other excuse could I have for not writing, well that part of being of mother of four must count. And of course being a homeschooling mother of four gives me extra points, right?
So, here I am again. I will try and write more and be more committed.

Tomorrow I will write about this: "how can she home school all those kids, she must have the patience of a saint".......You have no idea how many times I have to listen to this. So, feel free to email me ybout your experience.

Till then relax and enjoy your kids.
xxx xxx