...across the street and all over the country. Kids are celebrating their freedom from classrooms, and we hear their joyous shouts and excitement even over here, across the street. Teachers are smiling broadly and looking forward to finishing their contract time very soon so that they can get on with their much earned break. Parents everywhere are posting comments on facebook, twitter and message boards, speaking around softball fields, dance studios and other places about the dread of being with all of their children every single day of the week. Sympathy and commiseration abound everywhere... except in my world. Every now and then people who don't know that we homeschool, look at me, smile the tired smile and groaningly share about how awful it is to have to deal with the kids for 3 whole months. They just don't know what they are going to do alllllll summer long. Oh the misery!!
Its times like these that I really do feel odd and outcast. I feel a little sadness that I really can't relate to these feelings of dread and unhappiness. This is a foreign thing to me. I spend all day, every day with my kids.
And on that note, when the sounds of exuberance and joyous celebration filter through our open windows, my dear princess child looked at me and said, "I'm so glad that I'm not in school. I'd hate to stop learning for the whole summer." I savored the words.
As an adult I know that schoolchildren won't stop learning this summer break, but its such a joy to me to hear my child express that she likes learning. She wants to learn and progress no matter the season. Maybe something is right about our choices.
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