Why I am learning "Their" ways

Funny, when I got the idea to "blog" I thought I might magically find more time to actually do so. Looking a the sparseness of posts so far I realize reality. Like all thinks in life you have to MAKE the time. Like homeschooling. I thought it might be different. So far I am really slacking. It's all on me really. No matter how much Marion fights me and gets frustrated or fakes a lack of understanding I am the one to make it all happen. I am the parent, I am the teacher, I am the one responsible for her education. But this shouldn't be a surprise. We decided to homeschool because we felt it was a calling. We felt it was an extension of our parenting. This all really has nothing to do with what I though I'd be writing about today. I planned to tell our back story. Why I am learning Japanese cooking. Why I am learning Japanese culture, language, and history. But I suppose it all is connected. How can I learn when I cannot teach. How can I teach my children to speak Japanese when I cannot teach basic English grammar and Math. Bottom line. I have to step it up. I have to MAKE it happen. All of it.
I have made several Japanese dishes over the past few weeks. I have even taken pictures. Just failed to blog. My husband, Wes and I feel called to be Missionaries to Japan. I suppose the same way we felt called to Homeschool. It will be an extension of our relationship with God, of our ongoing service to God. We are still in the very early stages. No clue of a timeline, no clue how it will happen, or what it will all look like. So in the meantime I am learning to cook. Learning to MAKE it all happen.

This is Marion at our Classical Conversations Homeschool group. She is learning to write a treble clef as part of this weeks music lesson. (see she does learn SOME stuff!)