• Sep. 10, 2006
Finally! Time to blog
Wow! Our life has been an amazing but busy ride lately! I have had no time to blog and here I sit on a Sunday morning of all days! My baby girl is sick this morning with a cold and she is still asleep! Dave and the big kids are at church. I don't know what to do! Just kidding! I thought that I'd jump on here and catch up a bit on our goings-on.
Home school is going GREAT! I really mean, fantastically great. I'm so glad that we toughed out last year and didn't give up and go back to public school. After spending all summer poring over curriculum catalogs and praying for guidance, we are very pleased with our curricula. The only change we are going to make is to math. We are currently doing Miquon Math and it's just not a good fit for us. So we are going back to Horizons for now until we can find one that fits us better. Our greatest find this year so far is Calculadders. I was very skeptical at first but it is such an effective program. It is a timed math drill program. My younger son does 2 minutes of addition drill and my older son does 4 minutes of multiplication drill. They were a bit overwhelmed by the number of problems on the page at first but I've convinced them that you can do anything for 2 (4) minutes. That's such a small fragment of time. They truly love it now and ask me daily if it is time to do the timed test AND they are learning their facts! Too cool!
On to non-homeschool stuff...
My older daughter is potty trained! She, just like her older brothers, decided one day that was the day she would do it. There's been no looking back. She's even night trained! Way to go Emma! I don't know what I was so uptight about!
My younger daughter is such a joy to our family. She is the happiest baby in the world, hands down. Honestly, I'm not bragging. I've just never seen such an incredibly happy baby. She lights up our home and the big kids adore her. We are so thankful to God for blessing us with such a sweet, happy, loving child. She's now rolling over both ways and loves to "talk" to us.
The boys are keeping me busy. Usually I have a rule that each child is only involved in one extracurricular activity a semester. Of course, that rule was imposed when we were in public school. So now we are going quite a bit. I may have to go back to our rule of only one activity. We'll see how it goes... My older son will begin fencing tomorrow. This is through our homeschool group. He is so excited about that. He and my younger son will begin a group on Tuesday that is similiar to Boy Scouts but is a homeschool group. Those two activities are only 2 weeks a month. My younger son and older daughter are taking gymnastics classes. My husband was a gymnast and these two love to do tricks with him on the trampoline. We leave from gymnastics class on Wednesday and go home for an hour. Then we head out the door to RAs and Mission Friends at church. Busy, busy, busy. I am a bit of homebody so this going a lot stresses me out a bit. I also know that some people don't agree with all of this going. I look at it this way, my children are home with me all day, everyday. They want to be out participating in activities with other children. They want to spread their wings. I want them to spread their wings. All of these activities are done under the watchful eye of me or my husband. So I'm ok with all of the going even though I love to be at home.
The baby is still asleep, poor thing...
In less than two weeks, we are leaving to go on our vacation. We are loading into an RV with my parents and heading north to colonial Williamsburg. I have never been this far north. However, I was recently informed that Virginia is still considered the south. I guess when you live in Louisiana, anything above Arkansas seems like the north! We are super excited about our trip though I don't know what to expect weather wise. We are trying to pack lightly but we deep south people get cold easily since we're not used to the cold! (Cold to us is 50 degrees...just joking!) I'm thinking short sleeve shirts and take jackets and sweaters in case it's cooler than we are used to. I don't know.
Well, that was long update and I'm sure quite boring. I am by no means interesting but I want to document for my friends & family who do read this. Have a blessed Lord's Day!
