Alybug and Em's story work this semester is the story of Aionwatha, from the Haudenosaunee tribe. Today as I was reading to them, I found myself on the verge of tears. I read about the clan system and how the people organized themselves into clans and then larger moieties for the purpose of taking care of eachother. They all depended on one another to take care of the children, do the planting and harvesting, celebrate the festivals, and on and on. They needed to accomplish these tasks together, because alone they could not do it all. Honestly it was a factual reading, with lots of repetition in it, in part for how this story can be used to teach multiplication concepts. And there I sat, with a big lump in my throat.
Owl is not sleeping well these days, and so I am tired. Pumpkin is needing lots of individual attention as her reading skills progress. Alybug and Em are doing more focused schoolwork which requires more preparation time for me. Of course there is the usual work of keeping our house going and our bodes nourished. Today as I sat reading to Em and Alybug while nursing a fussy squirming Owl and using my eyes to ask Pumpkin to save her math workbook question until I finished reading, I thought the Hauenosaunee were on to something. Oh, for a clan.
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