i’m glad for our choices

Here’s another sweet picture I found while trying to wade through the 500 photos on my camera’s memory card.

This was taken on the first day of school—we know because there is a school down the road from us and we had seen the line of bumper to bumper cars trying to get in there.  Sophie would be starting 1st grade this year if she wasn’t homeschooling—Thank the Angels she’s here with us instead!  I can’t imagine sending her away for most of the day.  I’m glad we realized we had other options.

Anyway, instead of heading off to the government-run Training and Indoctrination Camp,  Sophie lounged in the hammock eating strawberries with Luc and I.  At some point in the conversation she asked me where the first letters came from.  I thought pictograms, or maybe Cuneiform or Ogam.  When it got too hot in the hammock, we went and googled.  (It’s Hieroglyphics or Cuneiform, they’re not sure.)  Then I found a book on the shelves about the history of Japanese Kanji and they set to work inventing a script based on the pictures therein.  Somehow that turned into writing me notes from zombies (“Hav murcee on ur sool!” and “Wee wunt ur branz!”) and lots of giggling.

Much better than classrooms and worksheets.  If you ask me.

Yay for choices!