Just the Right Time

As a home educator, I have one of those closets in my house.

You know the one I mean. It’s the closet that won’t shut and is the black hole of everything homeschooling. 

Puzzle pieces, math manipulatives, parts of speech sorting activities, and dice all go to the closet to die. (Pun intended.)

When I recently could not find the protractor I needed, I determined to enter the black hole and sort it out. (Insert dramatic scary music here.)

As I sorted, I was astounded at how many things I had put away for “just the right time.”

There was an art book I had planned to do with my daughter when she got old enough. (She’s seventeen now.) 

There was a puzzle I thought we’d do when it got cold enough outside. (We live in North Dakota. It’s rarely not cold enough outside.). 

There was a history activity with all the instructions, parts, and pieces pre-cut I thought we’d use when we reached that era of history. (Was it my fault that that part of the Civil War just happened to be around Thanksgiving when I had too much to do?) 

I came face to face with the fact that if I save things for just the right time…..

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