Quid agis?  I had one of those aha! moments yesterday.  I must first remind you of a prior confession of mine - that I did not like teaching latin.  For those of you who are not going the classical route you are scratching your heads wondering why bother with a dead language.  However, those who are die hard classical educators are gasping in horror.  You see, latin, is suppose to be taught, according to experts in classical education.  It has something to do with learning word roots or torturing poor moms, I'm not sure which.  Anyways,  I was trying to plow through some conjugations and declensions yesterday with my oldest.  He was willing to play along but totally uninspired.  Then it hit me - this curriculum is boorrrrrrring!   If is bores me, can you imagine what it does to an 11 year old boy?  So I told him that we would get through some of the vocab and things like that but we would skip the latin prayers.  This would get us to the end quicker and then I could find something different to use.   Maybe a workbook that uses puzzles or some other means of teaching would help us along.  The only reason I used this curriclum was because the expert told me to... If I am following someone else's curriculum choice for my kids then am I really homeschooling? 

I must now say valete dear amici.  

Anissa