We officially started school this past week.  We are using My Father's World Kindergarten for Rachel and Adventures in My Fathers World for Ryan.  Rachel is also going to preschool two days per week at a local church, so my plan is to spread MFW K out over 1.5 - 2yrs. We are in no rush to get her through K.

We started on Tuesday and made it through just Monday & Tuesday's scheduled work in Adventures and Day One of K with Rachel.  We had so many interruptions - 2 therapy sessions and a Dr.s appt for Rebekah, and Dr's appt for me and car trouble on Friday.  I was pretty discouraged and talked to dh about just making next week our first official week.  He reminded me that this was a pretty typical week for us and we will have almost as many interruptions next week.  He very wisely suggested that we not try to stick to the MFW schedule and just move through each day as we can.  We will always have multiple therapy sessions, dr appts, etc.  We will just go until we finish the material, whether or not that is on a traditional schedule.  That is the beauty of homeschooling.  Sometimes I just need someone to remind me of the obvious!

The kids really enjoyed the work.  Ryan loves maps and we talked about the US map this week.  He also spent an hour looking through a $1 book from Target that showed each state with a lift-a-flap with capital, state bird and state flower.  He and Rachel both loved the letters dh & I wrote to them telling why we chose their names.  Thankfully, I thought ahead for once and made copies of all of Ryan's workbook sheets for Rachel.  She asked to do everyone that he did.  Ryan is anxious to start math and science, which we will do this week.  One of the things I liked about MFW was the light start to the year.  It is so incredible watching my children learn.  I love being there when they grasp a new concept.  I love it even more when they are just playing and don't even realize they are learning a new concept.  I feel very blessed to be able to homeschool my kids.