Teaching My Kids to Read

The little pleasures are the ones that can easily be overlooked until they are long gone, then we look back and wonder why we didn't spend more time enjoying them. One of my simple pleasures (now and for the last couple years) has been teaching my boys to read. Oh, yes sometimes it is aggravating, especially when they don't even try to pay attention and are pretending to read while looking out the window, but more days than not it is a delight to watch while they learn.

That may not sound very exciting, and I will acknowledge that sometimes I myself read posts like this by moms who talk about silly little things that they "say" they enjoy doing with their kids and because I don't get it, I just don't get it...this may be that type of post to you. If so know that it is really one of those things that you can't see the miracle in until you watch it happen, until you watch a child learn to read right before your eyes you don't realise the simple pleasure that comes from teaching. I feel so privileged to not be missing this, staying home, training and educating my kids is what I most want to be doing with my time right now.

I never thought I'd be homeschooling since I myself didn't enjoy being homeschooled. In highschool (even through parts of college) I wanted nothing more to be in the Army and then later a police officer, but the strangest part of it all to me is that I could have missed this blessing if I had been allowed to choose for myself. Still today there are days when I wish I could get all camoed up and run through the forest (and away from my kids), but over all I have found joy in the most simple of things right where I am, because all I know is that today this is exactly where God wants me to be. No worries about tomorrow, just right now, just today.

Think of some simple pleasures in your life which could easily be overlooked. Do you have one to share??

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