So I have totally been neglecting my blog!  I was doing so well with keeping up with things.  Ah well...such is life!

It's that time of year again, time to make the annual school order for next fall.  This year is wrought with slightly more apprehension though...as my oldest will be a freshman in high school.  Yep, 9th grade.  And with that I feel a LOT more responsibility!  Lord give me stregnth! :)  We will be delving into Sonlight's Core 100 - American History in Depth.  Fortunately, she is looking forward to studying American history as we haven't done a whole lot of that.

My youngest two, will be 6 (dd) & 8 (ds in May)by then so we will be moving on from Sonlight's Core K: Introducing World Cultures...to Sonlight's Core 1 - Introduction to World History.  What is interesting about Core 1 is that that is what I started homeschooling my oldest with lo those many years ago.  This fall I will have been homeschooling 8 years.  The time has flown by, didn't seem like it at the time, but looking back I realize how quickly it has gone.

I am keeping the two littles together for History/Bible/Science/Grammar.  We're doing First Language Lessons by Jessie Wise.  They love it!  It's very gentle and hey, if they enjoy it and are learning...well you get my point.  In math we're sticking with Math-U-See.  I did contemplate Singapore...but then changed my mind.  I already have most of the elementary supplies as that is what my eldest did until pre-algebra.  This year she will be using Teaching Textbooks.  I am hoping for success in math with this program!

So, now just the finalizations of the school order need to be made.  I am hopeful to finish that up this weekend so that I won't have to think about it anymore. With this order I am also going to order the Butterfly Pavilion from insectlore.com.  The kids are going to love this!  I found a free butterfly lapbook from homeschoolshare.com (awesome site!).  Hubby and I have made plans to plant some flowers that butterflies love in hopes that when we release them they will stick around!

We will be doing school through July.  Usually end at the end of May. Unfortunately, we are behind this year..but have plans to make it up!  I'll take August off so that I can have a sanity break, then hit it again in September.

I am hopeful to not neglect my blog so much...I got really frustated with it when I was tagged and decided to go tag some people I knew and some I didn't...I had the whole thing typed out with links and everything and then something happened and I lost it all.  So...I walked away for awhile.

I will post some pictures soon, have some great ones of the kids doing their science experiments and just being cute!

Hope you have a blessed day!

Christina ~