Aug. 18, 2009 - Wow....summer is over!
Oh my ....last time I blogged was before summer really hit and now here we are at the end of it. So much has happened since then.
Our move was first, we moved at the beginning of June and absolutely love it! We love our new house, we are only about 15 min. from our church, this is so much better than 45!! And still only about 3 min. from my mom and mom in law, and maybe 10-15 from my dad and stepmom. We are walking distance (bike ride for the kiddos) from dear friends which is nice to be so close to homeschooling families with my kids the same age!
All the kids are thrilled with that, and it's pretty nice for us moms too.
At the end of June my baby boys turned 7! Don't know how that happened but it did and he is crazy thrilled about it! I love seeing the changes in my kids as they grow and mature in everything, but WOW, I miss my little babies and toddlers!!! The kids really don't get that though. Since we gave up the big birthday parties, which really just boil down to being headaches and lots of money out the window. Logan picked a friend to stay over and we took Wilson, Logan and their friend Jarrett out for pizza and bowling. Savannah was gone for the evening and the boys loved it! They stayed up late crashed in the living room floor and had some fun "boy time". On his actual birthday we went swimming with friends and had a quiet dinner here with other friends it was so much better than the big party where you don't even get to speak to everyone and everything gets trashed!! LOL
July around here was mostly quiet....and now here we are in August. I am planning to start school next Monday, Savannah is excited and ready to get started, Wilson would like to pick out just a couple of things he "wants" to do and skip the rest (lol), and Logan really sees no need to start at all!!!! 
So we'll see how it goes. I am ready to get started, ready to have a schedule again!!! We are doing things a bit different this year. I have really prayed about how we "always do things" and am realizing that part of homeschooling is being able to do what works for us, not what we have "always done". So when we start on the 24th, we will be working on our Bible, Math, Reading, Grammar (Spelling/Phonics), and in October we will add in our History and Science. I am very excited about the History and Science this year, but feel like we need to spend some time REALLY WORKING on the basics before we go in head first into everything else! Sonny and I discussed this a couple of times and we both feel like this is where we are being led, and the best decision for our kiddos at this time. Very excited to have had these talks with hubby and feeling confident in what we have decided as a team!!! What a feeling!
So now that summer has flown by, I am really planning on keeping up on this blog with some type of consistency....we'll see how that works out as well.
Hope everyone is off to a great new year of school 
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Comments
Aug. 24, 2009 - hey there
Posted by LaurieBeth
Good to see you blogging again girl! I've been checking in now and then to see if you started up again. Great to hear of your team efforts with Sonny (and God!) on the homeschool front!! I know our school runs so much smoother with Mike as the principal. I was getting stressed out about math around here and spilled it all out to Mike and felt sooooo much better after. Sometimes I feel like it shows weakness to tell him...like I can't handle it or something. Crazy satan talking again...he's so crafty!!! Anway, you two are an excellent team...I know your first day back is going to be blessed. Love you!!
Laurie
