For His Glory

First day of Summer Vacation

Summer may not officially start until June 21, but here at the Burchfield house it has begun! I made a Summer routine for us to follow roughly so as not to get too bored.  I find that the children do better with a general routine.  Meal times are a little later than during the School year and mornings will not be quite so rushed...ahhh....there is plenty of room in the schedule for swimming, crafts, and free play.  I also planned out 8 different units for us to study this summer, one week at a time.  The books we check out at the Library and our crafts and research will revolve around the theme for the week.  Sadly, if I don't plan for this sort of thing, good intentions to do crafts or research fall by the wayside.  Examples include: Ocean Animals, Reptiles, U.S.A., and my favorite-Food Fun!

I had a horrible allergic reaction to my I.V. med today.  The strangest thing is that I have  been  taking it for two weeks with no such reaction.  I guess it was a delayed sensitivity type thing.  I ended up sleeping for 3 hours this afternoon during rest time.  Thankfully our 2.5 year old took a 3 hour nap! Our 5 and 7 year old watched Sound of Music as I lay half awake half asleep.....funny how we mom's can do that sort of thing, isn't it? It's like God gave us the built in mechanism to be able to sleep and listen to our children at the same time.  I could be wrong that it is mostly women with this capability, but in our house, when Daddy is asleep, he has to get a nudge to be able to hear a child  crying in the middle of the night.  Unfortunately for my husband, because of my illness, he has to do most of the getting up in the middle of the night.  Thankfully, it is very seldom that one of ours wakes and has to be comforted back to sleep.  We are leaving those baby days behind again, now that our "baby" is almost 3. 

I look forward to this Summer, as well as time to spend planning for the Fall.  I begin Konos this Fall and am very excited! The children are going to love it and learn so much! We will have one in 2nd and one in 5K. 

I would love to hear from any of you, and look forward to blogging more in the future.  I have a seperate blog space on Caring bridge for updates on my battle with chronic Lyme disease, so I will be dividing my time between the two.  If any of you are interested in learning more about Lyme or my battle against this dreadful disease, please email me and I will give you the site name.

Welcome!

8:19 PM, Jun. 10, 2007 .. Posted by hallfamily8

Welcome to homeschoolblogger!!! We are going to be starting KONOS tomorrow and I am very excited. Our first unit is going to be birds. We will center our study around the bird feeder in the yard outside the dining room window. That will be fun!
I'd love to hear more about your summer routine. I worked on setting up routines for us just today. We're going to start into them tomorrow.
Love, Dawn