Winter Solstice Healing and Family

This week is a very special week for me and my boys. It's the week of the winter solstice and a time of healing and balance. I suppose there is a built in time of healing every day and I work to ensure this component in these beautiful souls I've been entrusted with.

So much fills our days - joy, adventure, fun, exploration and discovery, expansion and love.

We have a new globe - an early Christmas gift for the boys. It started off with an exploration of the places we will visit in 3 years time and led to landing in TX where we started looking at the gulf and then that led to the store of the 8 dolphins of Katrina. We then studied dolphins for a short bit and learned some very fascinating

CASH FLOW from Rich Dad/Poor Dad fame Robert Kiyosaki is the game of choice right now. I'd like to play this until we attain mastery and the boys can not only do their own spreadsheets but for our family as well. We have a new focus - getting out of the rat race. This alone is a tremendous education - following the whole of finances. WOW. What and where I would be had I had this information at 9 or 11.

Ryder is still devouring his graphic novels. I suppose there are some with redeeming qualities but over all it still feels like this bite size text mentality that we are cultivating as a society. I do see where our ability to communicate and carry on a full, emotionally connected, empathic, compassionate conversation is becoming archaic. Yet I find myself working hard to embrace this component for the sake of staying abreast of current trends.

He loves Dilbert so I can't fault him too much. And it's always wonderful to hear him laugh out loud and share the latest guffaw.

My sweet precious Dax. The concussion and injury from the auto accident in 2016 with their dad has had lasting repercussions. Where we were when he was 7 and where we are now that he is 9 is noticeable from a teachers perspective. I am so completely grateful that I am able to homeschool my boys and to have seen this whole progression. The trajectory of his life could be so very different and very scary had I not been able to observe and assess and get the help he needs. Brain trauma is a frightening thing and there is so much on this one topic alone it's enough to leave one paralyzed with fear. Such gratitude for the amazing doctors who are helping him and gratitude to my own and his own Divine source that we have been able to come as far as we have. Truly so much to be grateful for. I have learned so much - to be less rigid - which is a constant work. But that to keep him on a time line of "now you must read at this level"...and nonsensical hoops and criteria is not what I would want for him out of his life.

As always, it is I who learns so much from our homeschooling days.