This is the life....

Here you are, 11 years old, lying in a hammock, swinging in the warm autumn breeze, reading Chinese Myths and Fantasies, and occasionally sipping iced water, at 10:30 am on a weekday.  What is this?  This is a snapshot of a homeschooled child in September.  Of course, she got up at 8am and helped with the cooking, cleaning, animals and clothes washing (it was her day), and then did 30 minutes work on Greek and an hour on Maths.  And all without a hitch (in my dreams). Every now and then, things do work out like this, and at that stage you say: "Wow, this is the life..."