We've completed our first week using ABC's of A.C.E. and it's working like a charm!! Silas is totally interested in learning to read and is grasping the different sounds with this indepth phonics program! We have a winner, ladies and gents! I'm so happy!
This year, 2008, we are concentrating lots on character developement...and it's a family project, not just mama teaching littles! The main thing we are doing is working at becoming more disciplined in our lives....we've become so undisciplined that it's horrifying really! I think it's really interesting how the enemy sneaks in and makes things progressively worse. Like, I started staying in bed until Shyla woke up because she likes a nice long hour of nursing before her day starts and I just cherish that cuddle in the morning! But now she is almost 2 and only wants a small nursing session in the morning and doesn't care as much for cuddling, it's more like wrestling and playing! lol Yet, I still stay in bed until she wakes up! Which is really silly! So, I'm setting the alarm now for 8am and I'll get my day started before the kids wake up, that way I can get my time with the Lord in, before chaos ensues! lol
I've been preparing my homeschool week on Sunday evenings, which is so easy!! Like a half hour tops to prepare for and photocopy any pages needed, it's so nice to be prepared! How much more smoother our days have been! Now just to schedule a bit more of our day. I AM realizing how much better we do with a schedule! Less whining and complaining for sure! and I'm ALL for that!! hehe
I'm enjoying 2008 so far! Full of anticipation as we look for a house to rent! Glad that I'm no longer fighting God's design for happiness. He created this world with order, why then would I be foolish enough to think I could be happy living in chaos?! Sigh, I don't know why it takes so long to learn these kinds of lessons...it's like you have to absolutely detest what you've become before you can change! Anyhow, change is in the air! And we're all happy about it!
I'm so thankful for my loving and merciful Heavenly Father! He is SO full of grace, it just simply overwhelms me!