Hi, I know I've not blogged for a long time, things have been rather hectic though they are slowly calming down now. Baby Deborah is 8 weeks old now (doesn't time fly) and she's quite a settled baby.

I am really struggling though, I feel like I should be doing more things/being more structured in my home schooling. My eldest dd is 6 and it is sometimes a struggle to get them working, though apart from a gr8 maths curriculum which I will be starting end of this month I'm kinda at a loss. I have teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons and that did go well then she got bored after a week (this was a few months ago) I know I need a good basic teaching your child to read or phonics program or both but there are so many things out there and we have so little money and I'm beginning to feel like I'm just not achieving anything, I think I need something with little preparation as time is very short these days with 4 little blessings to take care of and I try to help out in my dh business.  I also feel like I need a complete curriculum or is maths and english enough at this age? And how do you incorporate it all into your life? I really struggle to get the children to sit down and do the school work at times, I'm just pulling my hair out.

On a good note we have a few good outings planned for next few months which I'm looking forward too I could just do with some general encouragement and advice - plus I've just started taking my eldest dd (6) to a dancing class and she seems to have integration problems - not being used to integrating with other chldren I really do feel a bit of a failure at the moment.