Family

When homeschooling you begin to know your children.
At first, it was hard, this homeschooling thing with these distinctively different personalities in the same place together day after day.
But each day I grow to love them more and more.
One is sensitive to me and follows my leading to the T.  Which is good and bad.  Good because she is a good student ready to learn the next thing.  She loves to please me and make me smile.  Bad because I can crush her with one harsh word.  Bad because if I am having a lazy day, so is she.

The other child is quick to laugh, smile, sing, play, tell a story, dance, and visit about things from flashlights to butterflies.  This too is good and bad.  Good because she keeps things light.  Good because she is not affected too much by my sometimes harsh words.  Good because she reminds me that they are children.  Bad because she is a distraction.  Bad because she is hard to teach.

But what a blessing!
I have learned so much about them and am learning how to mentor them as unique children of God.  No two people are the same and thank goodness.  These two very different children bring so much joy and goodness to our home that I can't imagine what it would be like without them.  They have taught me to look past surfaces and into the heart and even into my own heart.  I am a better person because of these girls.  I am so thankful to have the privilege to be with them daily.
Even...on the hard days.