We finished our fourth year of homeschooling this week!  Whoo Hoo!!  In History, we covered Creation to the birth of Christ.  In Science, we learned about all kinds of amazing ocean creatures.  In Math, we tried out a new  curriculum and loved it.  Every year it is so exciting to wrap things up, and pronouce, "We're done!"  But it's also bittersweet...another year passed...each child another year older. What a connundrum a homeschool mama faces...the desire to challenge them and push them on to greater and deeper levels...and yet the overwhelming urge to stop time and hold them so tight right where they are!  Ahhh...the balance of life is never easy.   In my retrospective end of the year mood....I just want to savor each precious moment. 

      The children, however, are ready to announce their new official grades and promote themselves upward.  So, with no further sentimentality, I officially promote them to the 7th, 4th, and 3rd grades and little man... you are officially a Kindergartener.  I'll end this post to go get a tissue. My eyes seem to be watering a little.