So I noticed a theme to my posts. I talk a lot about what I wish I could have learned from my Grandfather. The man could do just about anything, and I learned a lot from observing him more than really being taught outright...and there are plenty of times I've been dealing with a garden or animal issue and I think to myself: 'If only I could ask Pop'. Now I could get into the metaphysics of how a few times I HAVE sort of flung a question out there and oddly enough felt led to make a decision that strangely enough turned out to be just what needed to happen...but we aren't talking about that.

The whole point of my blog is passing down what we know. I think it's important to take the time to teach our kids, or our nieces and nephews or other younger people in our lives, a few of the skills we are learning. It's easy to get caught up in 'learning survival skills' and not realizing that the knowledge isn't moving down the line. This is how arts become 'lost arts'.

Most of you know I have six lovely children-and yes, a lot of the time it's chaos when I'm trying to fix something and I am too rushed or harried or distracted to pull someone aside and say 'Now here's how you do this, so you'll always know.' But I'm making more of an effort to do that. Sometimes I will drag one of them outside with me while they are chattering on about their day or what have you and before they know it they are 'doing' without being formally taught. This is along a lot of the chores they all have and along with their homeschooling. We unschool a lot of skills around here.

I'd like to blog again about our approach to homeschooling and how to do that sort of thing without mimicking the traditional public school model. I'll get around to that pretty soon. Just some things that I've been thinking about!