May already?
Happy May everyone! Being at the beach on Monday made me so ready for summer and sunny days…or the few sunny days we get in between the foggy Humboldt county ones!:)
Jude is almost 6 months old. Everyone told us once we have kids the time would fly by…it already has! It makes me want to savor every smile and giggle from our little man.
I haven’t written as much as I thought I would on this blog…I’m a journal-er so I get my thoughts out on paper better than on the internet, or with my sweet hubby who has always been so good at listening to me share my heart. All that to say, heres what’s on my mind lately….I’m reading a great book by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay called ‘For the Children’s Sake’ about foundations of education- how we don’t let kids be kids any more…by overscheduling them like we do our own busy adult lives, by stiffling their need to have large chunks of time to just play, and how we are feeding them an educational system that hinders growth more than stimulating the individual person that they are with ‘living books’ and stoking their imaginations, etc. Sometimes I think I would have enjoyed being a teacher. My mom is a teacher, the kind that you look back on 20 years later and remember loving to learn because of something she did or said, or maybe just the fact that she has such a passion for teaching and children that her love for learning is contageous, either way- she’s one of the best teachers I’ve ever known. (I was in her class in preschool and was her assistant for a short period of time before Andrew and I were married.) All that to say, I’ve only read the first few chapters of the book but it’s definately food for thought.
