I thought of something...

... To post and yet still homeschool related, in a way.

Yesterday, in Literature, Gennifer (my oldest-14) was studying Haiku poems. So I pulled out my old upward bound book. This was a book published for the upward bound (collage prep)program. It contains stories, poems, essays, and the like soley written by the teen participants of the program. While flipping through the book looking for haiku, Gennifer began to cry. She told me that one of the poems in the book said exactly what she was feeling. As she read, it was really hitting home to her.

And then, as she got to the bottom of the poem, she saw that it was written by her own mother. It is so good when God uses little things to gently bring about change.

In case you are interested, here is the poem (no it isn't a haiku, what was she doing reading it then?)

It Scares me to think of us growing up
Of how we are growing apart
I know the memories are always here
But leaving friendships is the hardest part.

The future is opening up-
Showing us so many new place.
It's hard to stay in the past
When you see all these new faces

One of these days
I'll look back to see
All my old friends
And the way it used to be

Many acquaintances all so new
Always with different smiles
But you, my friend, are so special
We've been together many o'miles.

When the future encloses me
And I start to give in
You will be my
longest remembered friend.

Incidently, I remember fondly "the friend" to which I referred when I wrote this poem. I still think of that friend often usually very fondly but sometimes, when he is stealing my covers at night, the thoughts are not what you would call fond.