To maintain sanity, my alarm goes off super early in order to create time to exercise (fully wake up), enjoy coffee, and read my devotional. I usually am in the middle of cooking breakfast when my oldest, Bubba, comes down full of ideas and thoughts to ponder. He wakes full of energy and ready to go. Many mornings he comes along side me, helping finish breakfast before moving on to his devotion and diving into his current book. Right now he is living and breathing everything snowboarding. So he shares interesting information or stories as he reads and I have more coffee. At some point my husband joins us for breakfast and further discusses ideas with Bubba, before heading to his home office located 15 steps from our kitchen.
Once I begin cleaning up dishes, GM, my daughter, joins us. Not being a big morning person, she grabs a banana, hot tea, and book before heading to the couch to settle in and read. Rushing off for a quick shower, I give each of them to finish up and any directions on what we have planned for the day.
Once I am dressed for the day we head upstairs to the game room where kids build with legos, paint, play games, or work on craft projects. During this time I will sit in our recliner to read aloud from our current book. More discussions of themes, foreshadowing, and irony with ensue. This is also a wonderful time for us to study geography, culture, vocabulary, and history. As we finish up a couple chapters (or more depending on interest in the book), I will leave them pursuing interests to make lunch.
I personally love that we don't have to get sleepy kids out of bed early, rush them through breakfast, and shout orders about getting dressed only to shove them into a classroom to receive a very set and formula type curriculum. Peaceful mornings can give way to passionate discussions, thoughtful insights, and pondering questions. This is what true education is essentially based on in real life.
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