I will not be giving away the ending to any Jane Austen book [though how in the world you didn't know the ending to S&S, Becky is totally beyond me!!  Didn't you see the movie??? ]

Instead I will talk a little about our jaunt through Geography this year.  We're using a program called "Children Around the World".  It's a fairly good program, thoughI have had to do some major "tweaking" to make it fit our family.  It's the first year this program has been available so I think there are still some bugs to work out.  Since I have children on the older end of things [4/5th grader and 7/8th grader] I've eliminated the more crafty items [like keeping a travel journal - neither of the girls went for this idea] and introduced the idea of a Geography Notebook. 

Each week we study a new country - this week is Greece.  For some reason our weeks tend to run Wednesday-Wednesday.  So tonight we say good-bye to Greece with a Greek dinner [lamb kabobs over rice]  {even though it would be tastier and more authentic to roast a whole lamb over a spit in our front yard, for some reason my husband did not go for this idea} and tomorrow we start in on India.  Now here's where the tweaking comes to play.  According to the Instructor's Guide we should be moving on to the USA.  But I'll be covering that this summer with a drive across the US.  Right now I want the girls to learn about China during the Chinese New Year.   To make that happen we have to learn about Asia a little earlier than the guide instructs.  So it's India, Japan and then China during the New Year.   And then we'll head back to the Americas [Canada, Mexico].

So, there you go, Becky - no giving away plot lines.....just getting ahead of you in Geography!