Well, apparently someone and I won't mention any names (not in large letters anyhow) Sandi, a.k.a. Titus2woman, has given me a bit of a hard time about not updating already. Geeze, you mean I have to blog more than once a month? My problem is that I love reading others' more than writing my own. Well, that's just ONE of my problems. Ha!

On another note, I realized that I have done my children a disservice (sp?) by not making them practice their penmanship more than they have. I make them write everything in cursive, but I haven't made them practice cursive much since they completed their cursive books last school year. Well, I've heard it said, "practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect". Left to continue practicing poor writing, they will perfect it that way. Soooo, this left me to search for what I wanted for them to practice and I found it at  ourlosbanos.com. What a great site! The printables were exactly what I was looking for. I wanted something where the children could see the cursive up above and practice it on the next line below. Today I had the children work on some of the sheets and they were actually excited and enjoyed doing it. I told them that they may see some of the same sheets over and over, but they need to get their minds and hand muscles used to doing things the right way.

Ironically, yesterday dh was mentionioning how one of the children's handwriting was unaccaptable. He said to me, "Remember the writing of George Washington? His penmanship was beautiful. Had he done work like this he would have had to sit there and do it over and over and over again until it was acceptable. We don't need to strive for perfection, but we need to strive for excellence." Meaning that we need them to do work that is to the best of their ability and continue to strive to do better, but we don't demand perfection. There is a difference. The irony is that I read Melissa's (Honeybee) blog entry yesterday and she spoke of her family's current study on George Washington and made mention of his strive for excellence in his penmanship.

By the way, also on that printables website are links to other websites. These are really good links. One of them (I think the DonnaYoung link) had organizing pages you could print out for homeschooling, home and kitchen. The kitchen pages had a master grocery list as well as a menu planning sheet and some other things. For those of you trying to get organized in that department (picture giant fingers pointing at ME!), these are wonderful.

Well, now, there, I've updated my blog and hopefully have provided some useful information for others!

God bless,

Jennifer :)