Feb. 23, 2009

February 2009

A lot to catch up on!! We had a great holiday season and I can't believe it is already the end of February.  In December we were blessed to receive a beautiful, new, grandchild. Elianna Hope Cardoza was born on December 16. She is so sweet. Older siblings, Hannah & Jeremiah, love her.  We started up school again in January and have been making good progress. My older students were a bit behind in math, recovering from using another curriculum that wasn't a good fit for us. We have been having a friend do some math tutoring for us and the kids are really being immersed in math for the last week or so. It has been good and I can see the progress they are making. I don't know how long the tutoring will continue but it has already been a great boost. History and Science have been going well. Heidi is teaching the grammar students Life Science this year as supplementation to her own Biology studies. You learn a lot when you teach others and this has cemented a lot of the concepts that she had learned in her curriculum. In our Tapestry of Grace studies we have combined a couple of weeks in the study of Greece in order to move along at a little bit faster pace. One of the reasons for combining weeks was a visit from my brother and his two girls, ages 11 and 7. What a great week we had with them! We didn't get out and do lots of touristy stuff because the girls were having such a great time just playing with my kids, especially Kaitlyn, who is 7. Kaitlyn had not met Angela & Jenna before because the last time my brother and I saw each other, I was pregnant with Kaitlyn and Janet was pregnant with Jenna. The girls are only 10 days apart. It was funny to see they both had the same front tooth missing. :) Just minutes after they arrived Kaitlyn invited them up to her room to play. Within a very short time the three of them became inseparable. It was fun to watch them together. We did get to do a few things while they were here like bowling, visiting the Bass Pro Shop and visiting our church. We were all sad to see them go. Guess a visit to Massachusetts will be on our agenda sometime soon. Justin moved out into his own apartment this past week. He is excited to be venturing out on his own. Over the holidays we were blessed to be able to purchase a home in our neighborhood. We have turned it into two apartments, one of which is his new apartment. The other apartment is being rented by Lydia's two sisters and a friend. We like our new neighbors.

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