The WORLD is my classroom!

How exciting is that? I started thinking tonight about all the CRAZY things I end up doing and then I look at my two adorable children and I realize that they are learning every step of the way. We went to the mall with Mary. While we were there Jacob continually pointed at signs reading off the letters and asking what the words said. Tonight in the car on our way home from visiting grandparents he sings out from his carseat "ONE WAY!" (to the tune of "The Sign Song" from Electric Company) as we passed a sign that said ONE WAY on a aptly signed street. Walking out the church doors a few weeks back he exclaims excitedly "There! There is the word FIRE!" I don't remember ever *teaching* him the word "fire".

I love learning from the kids and realizing that we are learning and teaching every moment of our days, every step along the way. What a blessed way to live.

I've been staying up late the last few nights because after chatting with Mary in the van to Michigan City and back I found a new inspiration to really get our school figured out and up and running. I am busy planning lessons and field trips. We haven't been home a single day this week but the opportunities, interactions, learning experiences, and fun the kids had makes up for the piles of laundry that still sit, needing folded and put away.

I love being busy, I don't mind my messy house. I love that my kids know that Mo Willems is the author/illustrator of some of their favorite books, and today they got to give him a hug and a hello! (and he remembered them from the last time we saw him!)

We are blessed to have such a rich, exciting, hands-on classroom and school is going to be one big experience after another of interacting with our friends, family and environment!

This year is going to be one of our best years ever, because I am embracing our classroom: the world around us. I am creating experiences and days full of excitement, laughter and learning that is camouflaged as just having fun!