Summer is over

Summer is over ~ there are books strewn across the living room / dining room: Geography, Literature, English, Bible, Geometry (finish of last year), Algebra 2. There are notebooks and pencils and pens and a couple of backpacks. It feels both exhilarating and daunting. This year in our homeschooling ... what? journey? jaunt? expedition? peregrination? [ ... I can hear you now...readers "WHAT??" Peregrination????] Yeah, I found it as a synonym of journey and I cannot resist a great new word. So, here:
from O.Fr. 1528, from Latin: peregrinationem (nom. pereginatio), "a journey" from peregrinatus, pp. of peregrinari "to journey or travel abroad", from peregrinus "from foreign parts, foreigner" , from peregre "abroad"  properly "that found outside the Roman territory",  from per- (q.v.) + agri, loc. of ager "field, territory, land, country"]
Ok I like this word : PEREGRINATION! ... my homeschooling PEREGRINATION! It has been such a "journey outside the 'Roman' territory"... so very outside the norm.  I can tell  you that when I began to homeschool, 22 years ago (gasp), I never dreamed, guessed, imagined in the wildest of my known to be very wild dreams that I would a) still be homeschooling now...22 YEARS later; and b) that I would tackle such subjects as ... ok, all the histories: ancient, world, American..., Algebra 1, 2 (which still frightens me, low these many years later), Geometry {yeah, that's my limit}, science, and (gasp again) Latin. We have read SO many books. I have learned so much!!! I know I have learned so much about everything -- I think, maybe in some ways, my REAL education began when I started homeschooling.
And...as I began to say 2 paragraphs ago...this year in our peregrination we will take our mental machetes to Logic and Worldviews as well as the regular subjects: English, Geography and Culture, Biology, Latin, Algebra 2.
I wonder every year: What have I gotten myself into? I wonder every year: Who am I kidding? Can I do this? So here I am again and here we go!

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  1. Traveler (Jeffery)August 26, 2010 at 4:19 AM

    I wonder if Peregrine Took got his name and character from "Peregrination?" Very glad to see that your trip East has loosened the bonds of your blogging sense and we can now again drink from the fount of verbiage and wit.
    Blessings!

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  2. foutfolkSeptember 1, 2010 at 6:29 PM

    Off to a great start again huh?

    Your thoughts and attitude do so determine your year, at home, or a traditional school setting.

    Have you started tutoring yet?

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