Hope you haven't been holding your breath for the last eight months!  I'm feeding this blog to my new facebook account so I seem to have found my mojo.

We have schooled all Summer.  That's just how we roll...my poor kids.  Good news is they don't seem to mind.  We keep it fun. 

Our Fall '08 schedule is cranking up and I'm really excited.  Now, even little Ava is on the board for extracurricular activities and I practically need a spreadsheet to keep up with all our comings and goings.  As usual, we will live in our minivan:

Mondays:  Acrylic-on-Canvas classes (Bailey/Olivia/Ella)

Tuesdays: Creative Child (Ella/Ava), Tap (Ella), Boyscouts (Bailey)

Wednesdays: Homeschool Tutorial covering History, Music, Art & Drama (Bailey/Olivia)

Thursdays: Golf (Bailey/Olivia), Dance/Hip-Hop (Olivia/Bailey), Choir (Bailey/Olivia/Ella)

Fridays: I MAY be teaching Acrylic-on-canvas classes and jewelry design classes at my home in the afternoons.  TBD

Sunday afternoons: AWANA (Bailey/Olivia/Ella and possibly Ava)

Once we get going with this (September) I will figure out when to schedule our library days.  Now we have a 2nd library in a nearby county we love to go to.  May have to alternate weeks or something. 

Today the kids and I discussed the upcoming Science Fair.  We were talking about theories they could test etc.  My son wants to do something with water and capsized boats.  He's really into moviemaking and has recently seen Jaws and The Poseidon Adventure.  Boys seem to process that intense stuff better than girls.  I never, ever got used to watching any type of disaster movie.  I was definitely born in the wrong era.  So anyway, little Steven Spielberg is wanting to either capsize something or blow it up.  And, of course my Olivia Jane wants to grow things and make the world a pretty place.  It will be interesting to see this evolve.

The kids worked hard today.  They memorized Eph. 4:29 which is our school verse for the year.  Got a lot of "unwholesome" words flying around these days and I'm determined to nip this thing in the bud.  Bailey and Olivia played a math game using flashcards and quizzed each other for a bit.  Then went onto math worksheets, grammar workbook, spelling words, cursive practice etc. 

For lunch, they helped me put it all together and we ate like pigs.  I don't know why some days we have too much food and somedays there's not enough.  You can never predict their appetites.  Or mine.

After lunch they went onto silent reading.  After they finished up all their work for the day, I had a nervous breakdown when I hurt my foot on one of the 15 million toys lying around on the floor.  It was like a giant storm cloud rolled in and all four kids braced themselves for the worst.  They got to work quickly cleaning up the mess; living room, hall, playroom and stairs - yes stairs!  When it was all done they were FREE -- oh, except for the laundry.  The never ending laundry.

Ok, but after THAT they were free.

More later. No, really.  I mean it.