Satisfaction

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Hard to tell where he got his good looks from
I was showing my mom the class blog and it suddenly struck me how incredible the Steiner curriculum is! I know this of course, but to look back on the year and to think of all the wonderful things we have done together has been just stupendous. From cooking to beeswax, from music to maths, literacy to forest school, we cannot say we had a dull time. Sometimes when you do the day to day stuff, you dont see how incredible what we are doing actually is and the blog enabled me to do that. It felt very like the way i look back on my own blog which is several years old now and marvel that the stuff which we get up to.

I am incredibly excited about the new developments in my life, which have been sort of brewing now for a few years. It has been nerve wrecking of course, but then as i tell the kids anything which is worth doing is going to be difficult. It is tremendously fun watching the kids develop with their sewing and their craft work. Now we just sit around and get on with things. I will never forget the first sewing lesson. It was a real baptism by fire. They didnt know how to thread needles, make knots or even do a basic stitch and now they just sit and sew so beautifully. Of course some of them are reading fluently and some of them are so good at maths. Others are fabulous at gardening and others at clay or beeswax. Honestly, i feel so lucky to be given the chance to do this.

I am sooo sleepy suddenly. Gonna go for a hot bath now and then settle in bed with The Foundations of Human Experience. It has been a truly amazing year. I am incredibly grateful and humbled by all the blessings.


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