“My favorite colors are lilac and cobalt blue.”

Those were the words I overheard from my son in the back seat today.

I was driving, but I turned around in surprise. Not just “purple” or “blue”—but lilac and cobalt blue.

For context, he’s always told me his favorite color was blue, sometimes adding that he liked purple too. But to hear him now name specific shades with such clarity—it was an unexpected moment that made me swell with pride.

Just a few days earlier, I had broadened our entire homeschool curriculum. In the section on colors, I moved beyond just primary and secondary to introduce tertiary colors, shades, and tints.

Honestly? I wrestled with the same doubts many parents know too well: Am I doing too much? Or maybe not enough?

That single conversation in the car was all the reassurance I needed. It was both a proud and humbling moment—as a mother and as a teacher. Proud, because I didn’t see it coming. Humbling, because it reminded me how incredible it is to be entrusted with the chance to shape a child’s understanding of the world.

It brought to mind Proverbs 22:6. “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”

Consistency matters.

From teaching him memory verse songs when he barely had words, to stretching him now with more detailed concepts, I’m learning that nothing is wasted.

Our efforts may not always show immediate results, but in time, they surface—in conversations, in choices, and in character.

Even the smallest, most ordinary lesson has the power to echo far beyond what we can see. 

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