Long overdue for some blogging! 

Today will be a catch up day, then I'll start getting some articles out.  SOMEONE (name Lisa!) doesn't think it's fair to do a bunch of articles the same day.  I wonder if there's a way to post-date these things?

Hmm. I last posted in July.  I finished out my summer course, yippee, I'm down to the end now, 9 credits left. Of course as I register for Fall, I see that my perfect plan has gone awry and I can't take the classes I wanted.  It will all work out, I liked my OLD plan better.  I'm ALMOST there!  I've done a bit of knitting and sewing in my break.

Joey is reading.

Reading words in real books.  Not reading the books as a whole yet, but well on his way. This is so cool.   My biggest concern for homeschooling was teaching them to read, I know I can handle everything else, but I was worried that I might really bungle them up in the reading department and destroy all future of literacy. Looks like I'm safe. He would much rather be playing computer games, but the reading is definitely coming along.

Jessi is a mess.  The child has enough imagination for 4 kids.  I actually have to park her in front of the TV for a few hours each day to stifle her.   No kidding, she scripts out these elaborate play scenes and does 3 or 4 parts herself, and also feeds lines to Joey.  It's amazing.  She very much wants to learn to play instruments, she turns anything she picks up into music.

Joy is just getting more and more cute by the moment... she's the best baby... I just wonder if she's ever going to grow teeth.

Dean finished summer school and is back on grade level, he has about a 3 week break between end of summer school and beginning of classes so he's mostly sleeping and on the phone. perhaps he's actually sleeping on the phone. who knows.

OH yeah, We just had our 6th wedding anniversary.  crazy.  It seems like a LOT longer than that. (in a good way!)