Signifcant Seven

I posted on Sunday about my priorities -- what I seem to come back to year after year as the bottom line of homeschooling, even when the superficial things change.  

Thinking about it some more, maybe I will use those basic things as a template for a Week in Review.  I haven't done one of those for a long time and I miss them.  The categories:

Prayers and Devotions
Reading
Conversation
Outdoors Life
Work
Play
Exploration 

 I don't want it to get too formulaic.    But it might give me a way to think about what we're doing and what's important to me. 

Seven's a nice number.   When I was a child, it was my favorite number.  I just liked the way it sounded and looked as a word.   More recently, I got to hear two homilies on the forgiveness passage,  as well as study it in our local Matthew Bible Study and read several blog meditations on it, and I get that seven implies fullness and completeness.   Not that I think my list is comprehensive or perfect, but it does seem to evoke to me what Charlotte Mason called the Science of Relations -- they are all key ways of interacting with the world around us.