April @ FIMBY ~ Almost Done Waiting

March 31, 2011

I've been waiting on April for months.

Organizing and waiting. Reading and waiting. Unschooling and waiting. Cooking and waiting. Hiking and waiting. Praying and waiting.

Especially praying and waiting.

As much as I make a choice to enjoy all that winter offers it always seems by the end of the season, especially during March, that winter is just a lesson in patience.

This winter has been a lesson in many things.

A lesson in hard work, skiing through crud to get to the powder kind of hard work (read the link to understand what I mean). A lesson in trusting. And this past month, a lesson in facing heartache and carrying on in spite of loss.

It's been a long winter but truly it has flown by as we have readied ourselves each and every day for our move next month.

Our move next month.

In one month my husband will be home full time and we will share our days together as a family. I will be able to start implementing some of the ideas I have been nurturing for years. We will be one giant step closer to the freedom we desire and the livelihood we plan to create.

I don't mean to be dramatic here but next month we start a new life. Life 3.0

In the coming months I will be sharing on FIMBY what I mean by Life 3.0. And I am so excited to do that but seeing as we're not yet out of the starting gate I plan to delay a little longer in posting some of those details.

My plan for April here at FIMBY is to talk a bit about our moving preparations and my personal growth and self awareness as related to our move. More specifically, I want to talk about writing.

I have pages and pages of posts in progress that have been patiently waiting (along with much else this winter) to see the light of day. Posts about my writing insecurities, my passion for homemaking and homeschooling and how I might work through my weaknesses by focusing on my strengths.

I also hope to finally finish the series I started last March on our homeschool approach to learning the "basics" of math, reading and writing. Pages and pages of those notes also sit waiting to see the light of day. Though I am glad to have waited this long to publish them as during the past year I have learned more about the process of writing through observing my own children. Having this experience broadens my horizons a bit of what I had originally intended to post on the subject.

Moving, personal growth and development, writing (as a "professional") and as a learning skill, a bit of organization, a giveaway and hopefully a guest interview are all in the works for the month of April.