BEAUTIFUL!!

We had a beautiful day in Flagstaff and took a ride on the sky ride. The view was amazing and undisturbed. We went up to 12,500 feet and the weather was a bit cooler up there but BEAUTIFUL.

We got the volunteer ranger lady to snap a family shot of us but she forgot to hold it half way to focus but not bad. :)

Speaking of the ranger lady......... she seemed eager to speak to someone and tell about her knowings of the volcanic substance around us. The girls were very interested and listened with great respect. Afterwards the lady said "by the way, your girls are very interested in learning and very attentive and can speak to me very cordially and I like to see that." She then proceeds to tell me that she was a retired school teacher of 7th graders for many years. DO I DARE TELL HER THAT WE HOMESCHOOL? Sure! So, I then chimed in to tell her that I homeschool the girls and she said "what ever you are doing you are doing it right." :)

This moment captured our day with one on one time with each of our daughters in a beautiful place.
I am reading a new book this week called "Home Court Advantage" by Dr. Leman and he says and I believe ........

"If you think there's no difference between supermarket and homegrown sweet corn, compare what you get at your local grocery store with what's offered at a farm stand where they've picked the corn that morning. Your eye may not see a difference, but your taste buds will. The same thing is true with children. Many kids may seem on the surface to be well-mannered and polite. Get past those exteriors, though, and you may find that they play by the rules but lack the inner core of their own convictions.

There's more to having homegrown children than simply cultivating certain behaviors.

A home grown kid is like that sweet corn -- the secret lies inside."

This man speaks not of homeschooling but yet having that special relationship with our children.