Oct. 21, 2008

Finally!

Well after over a month and 2 prescriptions of antibiotics, I think I'm finally over my sinus infection.  It has been a busy month (which didn't help me to recover I'm sure).  We finished harvesting the garden and have preserved  our food as needed, somethings like winter squash and carrots will keep for quite awhile in my basement.  I have about 5 or 6 bushels of apples down there too.  We will try to keep as many as we can, but most will be turned into applesauce or pie filling.  And I have several quarts of grape juice in my freezer, I still have to decide if I want to leave it as juice or make it into jelly.  And just this past weekend we harvested the black walnuts.  School is going along well.  Ger is enjoying his ancient history studies, although he complains about the amount of reading.  He has started taking a class in Ancient Greek taught by a retired minister at our church.  He has retired from ministry, but teaches ancient languages at a local Catholic high school so he is quite used to teenagers and is an amazing teacher in general (he also teaches our adult Sunday School class.)  I am amazed at how well Mic is doing, we put him in Saxon Algebra 1/2 this year.  Technically it was about 3 levels above where he was working, but we began to wonder if the issues he was having with math were more due to boredom.  So my husband and I decided to make the change understanding it may take more than one year for Mic to finish.  Well Mic is doing very well, he is completing nearly a lesson every day and he is doing every problem (his choice!)  We have had to go back over a few things (like multiplying decimals) that he has never done before but once I explain how to do the problem he does very well.  He is also reading The Hobbit, he fussed in the beginning about the book but now he loves it and is reading about a chapter a day!  Moms and Dads of late readers note, this is the child that was not reading fluently until about 2 years ago at age 10.  Finally there is Ed.  He is flourishing using the short lessons, Charlotte Mason style.  We alternate subjects, first we start out with math (his work) and then we read some poetry ("my" work).  We work back and forth between his work and "my" work (anything that needs to be read aloud) until he is done.  In general I am very happy with this year, I just hope the rug isn't pulled out from under me too soon!

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