We have had a VERY good first week of school!  Here are some of the highlights:

* Taking pictures in front of the tree in our front yard on the first day of school.

*  IHOP...'nuf said!  (thanks again, Cindy!!!!!)

* Violet has had a WONDERFUL attitude in apporaching her schoolwork... thank you, Lord!

*  We are LOVING the Story of the World!  What a huge difference from A Child's History of the World we did last year!

*  I am actually enjoying doing things with more structure, and we are already getting lots done with me having lesson plans... it is working out a lot better than the no-plan method of last year.

*  That being said, I love the flexibility we have!  I love tailoring what we are doing to each child, stopping when we want to, and following the "rabbit trails"!

*  Dash climbed UP our FIVE SHELF boookcase in our new schoolroom, and it did NOT tip over onto him and Jack-Jack who was playing right in front of it... a weird highlight, but thank God for His protection!

*  Love our new room- I think we all do!  I am so glad we changed the basement around to use for this!

*  We LOVE Math-U-See so far!  LOVE IT!  LOVE IT!  LOVE IT!  It is SO much better than what we used last year, which shall remain nameless but is also the name of an Asian country LOL;)

*  Just being together as a family.  We are enjoying our time together so much!

* Blogging!  HSB was a highlight of my week this week because you all have encouraged me so much, and I thrive when I have people around who care what I am doing, because then I want to post what we are doing and it keeps me accountable to do it.

THANKS!