March 1, 2006 - I Baaaaack!! YEAH!!
Well, after having my entire computer completely rebuilt, new motherboard, new and more memory, new video card, etc. etc. Basically I have a new computer, with a fraction of the cost. Thank you Lord! And now I can finally continue blogging!!! I have missed it so much, and you know trying to homeschool without a computer is very difficult.
Our trip to San Antonio, Texas was amazing. My oldest daughter helped pay (thank God as we could not have afforded it) because the only reason we were going, was to attend her husband's Air Force graduation. We were real proud of him, he is now stationed in California and is attending his training school. She will be joining him (with my grandson) in July and they will be there for about a year, before they move on to the next place. I swear the military is like a bunch of gypsies. Move, move, move. LOL! I have already begun to miss him, and I will hate being so far from my daughter and my grandson.
When we were in San Antonio, we of course went and spent a day at The Alamo. Wow, what an expierence that was. If you ever get a chance, go to The Alamo. It is incredible!! You'll be moved and changed by the place. I know it changed my daughter's perspective.
My youngest Jenni, said that she could actually imagine what it must have felt like to be those men and women at the Alamo. She said to her sister, "We are walking the same place were all those people did in 1836." She got it! She not only learned history, but she "felt" it! That is exactly what I have been trying to get her to learn. There is no teacher anywhere who could have taught her that, that comes only from being there. The Alamo helped her learn so much that day, that now she says she wants to go to more historic places. YEAH!! She use to hate history, for years in the public schools her history grades were always D's and barely C's. I could never help her "get" what is so cool about history. And now ever since I pulled her out of school last year, she is starting to enjoy history!!
Now all I need to do is figure out how to make science more interesting to her. Anyone have any ideas? The A Beka Biology book helps, but she is still pretty bored with science, like she use to be with history. But, I have faith because if God can help me change her mind about history, I know I can about science too.
Well, that is all I have for now. Thank you everyone for hanging in there with me while I waited for my computer to be fixed.
Have a great day! 
Comments
March 8, 2006 - YAY!
Posted by Jn1512
Glad you had a wonderful trip! Love to hear about those AHA! moments people have with their dear children. What a joy! I've been going round with history too. We just purged BJU and don't know what's next. I'd like to start with American history since my kids are young. We FINALLY found a science that will work for us after a few trial and errors. I love Abeka too but wanted something that had some notebooking aspect to it. ACSI website has samples of the books/texts
you can look at along with the TManual pages. I printed some out and found it very easy to use. They provide science for upper grades too. Check it out and see what you think. It might not be the one, but it's one more option to research if you haven't already! :)) Cheers and happy blogging.
Michelle previously Col323
March 13, 2006 - I love SA...
Posted by SupComTabz
We stopped there once on family vacation (my aunt lives in Corpus Christi) and I loveeee San Antonio... I'd love to go there again. :)
March 15, 2006 - My daughter was the same way
Posted by LovingLearningLaughing
She hated History in school and now it is her favorite subject. We use The Story of the World. We use the Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia as a spine for Science and suppliment with reading but since your daughter is older you may need something more lab intensive.
March 15, 2006 - Untitled Comment
Posted by hsmom23boyz
Glad your back! I'm back too! My puter was in the shop for three weeks, and I only owned it for three weeks before it crashed!
Your Texas trip sounds fun. If we ever move from CA, that is where we want to settle. I love Texas!
