Days that make you say, "This is what it's all about..."

We all have those days. Those days when lessons don't start till 10:00 and none of the kids can focus. When you have tell tell your son 10 times to sit down and please finish his spelling, or you don't understand why he isn't getting his multiplication facts down no matter how hard you try. Those days, when some of us are required to do mandatory testing and even though, you know in your heart that you aren't following "their" course of study or scope and sequence, that what your doing is much better for your child, the test results come back less than stellar and you feel terrible because you just know you are failing your children. Those days that make us question, even for a brief moment, "Why am I doing this again?"

But then we have those other days. The days when your daughter spends 3 hours on the computer setting up a blog for her photography. Choosing the layout, applying the html code, watermarking the hundred or so pictures in her portfolio to use...The days when your son is actually enjoying the classical music channel and making comments about the snippets of facts they play with the music and when he is pleading to finish reading the last 8 chapters of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe because "...the battle is coming and the book is just sooo good." Those days when grammar just doesn't seem like such a big deal and the world won't come crashing down because all of the little boxes didn't get checked off. Those days when you say "This is why I do it."

Today has been one of those days and it's been great.