How to Live With Dust Bunnies and Enjoy Them
- on 09.21.09
- Education, Family
- 4 Comments
“I learned how to live with dust bunnies and enjoy it.”
I always like to feel I am contributing something useful to other folks’ lives. So that is what my sister-in-law gleaned a few years back, when she and her family stayed with us for a couple of weeks while they waited for their new house to be ready. (I notice, however, that she does not apply it- I have NEVER seen a dust bunny at her house despite all the education and activity that she does.)
But you see, the dust bunnies live on books. We have books- gently-aged classics, spankin-new paperbacks, text books, collections, kid’s books- shelves and shelves of them. In fact, one time the furnace repairman looked around our sunroom and said, “You gotta get rid of some of those books!” (I didn’t believe him, actually.)
And in my eccentric opinion, books don’t look completely authentic unless they have been kissed with a little dust. I think it gives the atmosphere of erudite thinking.
Our “erudition” illuminates Seth’s education these days.
This year school looks like:
Monday and Thursday classes: essays, Latin, Spanish, art, ancient history and literature, study skills
At home: Teaching Textbooks Math, Classical Roots Vocabulary, J. Weston Walch Grammar, A Case of Red Herrings (critical thinking), Earth Science (Globe Fearon), A Beka Health, personal reading list, guitar, Wii Fit
With Tri-State: Choir, MEK
Youth groups: at New Beginnings and Christ Community Churches.
If you dropped in at the Tillman house, you might climb over some projects and trail past my pile of bills and weave between some bookshelves. Or you might just decide to stay outside and admire the sheep gamboling around the field behind us. But if you come in, we can enjoy a cup of coffee and appreciate a dust bunny or two together.
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Amen and amen! I recently visited a homeschool mom with whom I am newly acquainted, and her home felt so real, so like mine, not out of the pages of a decorator’s magazine, but instead full of the warmth and personalities of her family members.
Not long after, she was in my home, and saw the plaque on my piano that says, “Martha doesn’t live here, and that’s a good thing.” She momentarily missed the implied reference to Martha Stewart, and assumed it referred to Martha from the Bible. She said, “That IS a good thing. Martha was troubled and worried over many things, but only one thing was important.”
I’ve been enjoying my piano plaque on a whole new level every since!
Hey, maybe we should do a site about homeschool interior design?
Wall decor= maps, timelines, art projects, photos.
Accent pieces= spelling workbooks, novels, dvds, musical intruments, yesterday’s math scrap paper..
Floor coverings= more of yesterdays’s math scrap paper, research books and notes, guitars, drums…
I’m liking this post………..especially since our dust bunnies sometimes run after us and when passing from one room to the next in the bustle of our home!
Thanks for the encouraging posts and I look forward to getting to know each of you more(despite your dust bunnies or lack of them.) *WINK*
I consider dust a nice protective covering.