I'm really struggling to find time to blog-- which explains why my entries have been sporadic, to say the least!

Things have been going really well for us. We're back at the books for the fall, since all the public school families around us are back on the big yellow buses! We took July off-- most of it, any way-- but it really doesn't feel like summer's over for some reason. The weather, I suppose. And last weekend our two oldest boys went on a field trip with their dojo (karate school) to the ocean. Who goes to the ocean in the fall? Therefore it MUST still be summer, right?

I bought that Classical Magic cirriculum which there was an article about in TOS, and we've been using it a couple of weeks. The other morning when I was struggling to get a DVD of Blues Clues going for my youngest, the television was playing a commercial for salad dressing. While our 4th grader was feeling around under the couch for the remote so we could get the DVD player going, he casually remarks (in regard to the music coming from the TV) "That's the Spring movement from Vivaldi's Four Seasons."

Yay! Score one for me. My kid is recognizing some pieces of classical music!

Then the other day, this same child asked me why he's read the whole Old Testament and is now well into the New Testament as still hasn't come to the part "about that horse full of soldiers."

Somehow, my sweet kid has confused Greek history and the Bible. I haven't figured out where we went wrong there, but it happens. I explained that the Trojan horse isn't Biblical, but he looked skeptical...

Anyway, I'm reading Charlotte's Web to my kindergartener in preparation for a field trip to the State Fair (when the weather cools off a bit) to see the animals. We did the same thing with our oldest homeschooled boy. I'm going to make it a tradition with each child.

My kindergartener, who is turning out to be a great student already (I may be a little biased, of course), still says the cutest things. This summer, his baby sister accidentally let go of her helium balloon outside. We watched it float up and become the tiniest speck, and eventually we couldn't see it at all. He announced, "It's gone now. God caught it!"

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