What Happens when you Listen

Denver proudly displays his new spelling skills...
unaware of any errors.

Spencer and Denver were not doing their math and writing, at least not doing it very well. Instead, they were playing with my new phone and being silly. Surely, I should at least be getting them out of the house more, especially on this suddenly beautiful December day that felt almost like spring. I was listening to the voices of judgment in my head when . . .

. . . They ran into the kitchen with faces beaming. “Listen to this!,” the boys shouted. They had learned to use the recording device on the phone, and Denver recorded an impromptu song. “It’s a beautiful, peaceful morning . . . It’s a wonderful, wonderful day . . . The birds are singing . . . It is spring …” The song wandered on and on, Denver’s sweet seven year old voice praising everything about this day and this morning until . . . and this is why the boys wanted to share it . . . Denver ran out of things to say and began growling and barking into the recorder. They thought that was Hilarious!

So while I’m feeling that the day is being wasted, the boys are finding joy and silliness, as well as learning how to use new technology and enjoying singing and being together. And eventually . . . the boys did do their homeschool.