Preschool?

While the questions about when Joseph would be starting school initially slowed down when we moved to Tennessee, they are starting up again now that he is a (tall?) four-year old. I have no interest in starting "formal academics" this fall--or probably next fall, honestly. But I have been thinking yet again if the start of a new school year shouldn't be a time for me to try yet again to add a little more structure to our daily life.

This is the game where you dig a giant hole and put all the dirt from it down your shirt

I've learned that when I fail to make changes I want to make it is often partially because they are way way too big. Some people thrive on that kind of immediate and dramatic challenge -- not throwing anything away for a whole year! not eating anything grown more than three houses away for a whole year! not wearing pants for a whole year! -- but I am emphatically not one of them. Tiny, tiny, impossibly small baby steps all the way. So I'm keeping my plans as small and as simple as possible, focusing on growth in virtue, living the liturgical year and reading the thousand good books.

What, you've never played that game? You are missing out