my pay day

I just have to share my little pay day I received today. I've wondered if my children will ever enter a love of learning phase and have tried to patiently wait, not very successfully I might add. But today I got a glimpse of what it might look like. I was busy trying to get Cate ready for her Liberty Girls club and the other kids are off playing and not doing school time things because mom is busy of course. I call them in getting very impatient with them all to start with the "they know better etc. etc." I rattle off a list of things for Dylan to do (he's been playing in his room) and Star is next. As I start to rattle off things for her as well, She says "but mom can I finish doing my own school?". What school has she been doing I'm thinking honestly not really knowing what she was doing because I was busy with Cate. Anyway, she says she'll show me what she was doing and I follow her. She has been in the den, has gotten one of the children's encyclopedia's and is reading about flowers. But wait thats not all, she has got 2 notebooks, one that she is writing down what she is learning along with copying the diagrams in the book and the other one she has written down words that she doesn't know. She says that she thought she could use those as spelling words or vocabulary words to learn. WHAT!!! Is this Star? Is this one of my children? Fighting back tears I let her know that what she has done is fabulous and she can definetly keep working on it while I'm gone. Probably not a big deal to others but a huge pay day for me. Glimpses like this keep me going and remind me why I'm doing this. Thank you Star, I can't wait for you to tell me all about flowers!