Still waiting on the DVD player to be shipped in (Labor day weekend isn't helping)...And the Learning Language Arts Through Literature (LLATL) that I ordered have not arrived yet either. Tuesday was supposed to be our first day of school.  I think that I'm going to go ahead and make it a school day...it just doesn't look like we will have math or lang. arts?  We can do Bible and work on some other things that were supposed to be extras while we wait for things to come in.  I spoke to the kids tonight about us starting some school and Byrce who is nine and does very well in school covered his ears.  I explained to him that this will not be like how he remembers school...he said really, we won't have just 30 minutes outside and then sit at our desks for the rest of the day (WHOA that was an insight to his image of school).  I explain to him that school was NOT going to last 6-7 hours a day like "real school".  And that we would have lots to do but we wouldn't always be sitting at the dining room table doing it either.  He seemed more interested.  Caitlan and Bryce are really interested in taking field trips to Seaworld (we have yearly passports), she wants to learn about Orcas and be a whale (specifically Shamu) trainer when she grows up. They also want to visit a couple of farms (a real farm and a reptile farm) that we have in the middle of the state.  I figure that we can go just about anywhere and call it school if we explore and talk and learn...isn't that what learning is all about?

'til next time~~~~>