I’m in love; completely addicted to the home schooling lifestyle.  This is a ’snapshot’ of a day-in-the-life at the Mira house. Here’s our Seth Daniel, sipping on his all-fruit smoothie, (that I – Mom -  had the privilege of making him) in the middle of the morning.  His feet are snuggled in his donkey slippers, he’s comfy in his long johns, as he reads through his daily math exercise. 

What could be better than having my children so near me, almost every day, in their growing-up years?  It’s been worth the pressure of living on one income, complete with lousy (cheap!) vacations, pinching pennies at the clothing store, the grocery store and the toy store.  It’s been worth all those do-it-at-home hair hi-lite kits (ugh), pedicures and make-it-from-scratch meals.  I’d drive ‘beaters’ all over again, just to be the one with the ‘loudest’ voice in my sons’ lives, next to Daddy. 

I hear, too often to count, that it’s just not possible for folks to live on one income anymore.  Hmm.  I guess it could depend on how one ’slices the economic pie’.  For lots of American families, getting Mom back home is a few (difficult) decisions away.  How thankful I am that we somehow, in God’s great mercy, found the grace to make such decisions, in order to find such wealth…right here in our own backyard.

Apart from His grace and leading, I would never have known such pleasures!