We're all doing well.  Baseball season has started (one of the things my boys missed about the US) and I have 3 in.  You may know that that means that we're either homeschooling, at church or at the baseball field.  Not much down time.  My youngest 3 are also enjoying Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts.  They want to go all the way to Eagle Scout and one wants to enter the military after graduation so Eagle is supposed to move him up a rank at the entry level.  He has high hopes of going into one of the academies.  If anyone has any pointers on homeschoolers  entering a military academy that would be great.  I know that sports is important and scouts helps and academics.  He still has a few years to go so we still have time.

Been homesick for Scotland here recently.  I love the fresh, clean, crisp smell and feel in the air.  I felt so much more healthy living there.  It's a great place.  Much different than the US.  We truly are divided by a common language.  Our words and the UK words for the same thing are very different...Cookies to us are biscuits to them.  We still catch ourselves calling french fries chips or calling an industrial sized garbage bin...the tip.  Some words I've even forgotten how we say it in the US.  I have to ask people what we call it here.   It's fun.  God bless Scotland.

Hope all are enjoying their school year.  Seems like spring break has given me a good rest in order to press on.  We have a friend from France coming to visit us in April.  We're looking very forward to that.  He was one of the children's best friends there and his family moved to France from Scotland and had a hard time being away from friends who spoke his language.  He's very fluent in French now, though. 

Blessings to all as we venture forward with renewed vigor and vision.

Celticlove

We've just spent the weekend in OKC.  We had a board meeting for Eleos Foundation Intl.  (a charity organization forming to help needy and orphans in Rwanda, Africa www.eleosonline.com )  It was a quick trip and it went well.  It was very cold because another cold front with snow had blown through just before we got there.  The boys were able to throw snowballs out of the hidden pockets of snow that were in the shadows of the buildings.   It was a fun trip.  We got to spend the night with Max's sister in Dallas where it was also cold.

This weekend, Max is performing a wedding for some sweet friends of ours, John and Cindy.  We've known her for a long time and it's so sweet that she's asked Max to do the wedding for them.  It's going to be lots of fun.

Still LOVING Sonlight curriculum and met a new friend in town that was a representative for them.  We're having fun sharing with each other about it.  Her children are older than mine, so she's been there, done that.

I've been thinking about how beautiful England and Scotland are right now with all the tulips and bulbs blooming.  Never seen so many tulips in one place before.  So pretty...really miss it.  Especially the weather.  I love the colder weather there.  Wonder how I ever ended up in the South.  I must have gotten my dad's Rhode Island blood instead of my mom's Texas blood. 

Let me know what's going on your way.

Love to all................Nancy

Hello,

I'm very glad to be a part of the blogging group.  I'm looking forward to the relationships that this platform provides.  Good to be able to give and receive support to and from other homeschoolers outthere.

Thanks,

celticlove

Hello,

I'm very glad to be a part of the blogging group.  I'm looking forward to the relationships that this platform provides.  Good to be able to give and receive support to and from other homeschoolers outthere.

Thanks,

celticlove