This Old House

On the Up and Up

I'm so glad the seasons of life change.  Things are doing much better for us since my last post.  Nobody's sick...hooray!  I feel great in my second trimester.  We are all caught up financially since Brian's pay raise.  Hallelujah for that!  I have secured a midwife who I will have a home birth with (a tough thing to pull off after having three c-sections).  I was having a lot of trouble finding a good christian midwife.  So we are driving two hours to get to this one in Mississippi who is excellent.  I will be getting extra prenatal care and back up with a local OB and CNM.  We all just got on my husband's medical and dental insurance.  I have always had a lot to be thankful for, but this just continues to add to the list of all the things God has provided for us.  Thank you so much, Father.  And thank you to my husband for being such a hard worker! 

        The little fellar(I think it's a boy) in my tummy seems to be doing well so far.  I pray God gives a safe delivery and a healthy baby.  I'm getting ready for another year of homeschooling soon and I know I want to be more organized than I was last year.  I'll have two to formally teach this year.  I may teach Lauren(4) how to read along with teaching Jacob(6).  I know she would love it, but Jacob likes the one on one time with me.  Ian is almost self taught in science, geography and history.  He reads anything in the house he can get his hands on in the subjects.  It helps to have a child who loves to read.  I hope Jacob enjoys reading as much.  Anyway, I think I'll stick with Abeka for math and phonics, spelling and language.  I like the Considering God's Creation series for science.  We already have a lot of elementary history books we can work on together.  For writing assignments I like to go to google pictures and ask the kids what they would like to write a story about.  If it's dinosaurs we google pictures of the topic and copy and paste the pictures to a story book page I have already formatted and then we print it out, then they have to write a story about the pictures.  We also like to write emails and letters to friends and family.

Anyway, things are looking on the up and up and that's good!

Untitled Comment

3:19 PM, Jul. 26, 2007 .. Posted by Anonymous

Glad you are feeling better! Congratulations and I hope you have a wonderful home birth, I'm not that brave =)!

Oops I didn't mean to leave that anonymous!

3:20 PM, Jul. 26, 2007 .. Posted by ericaand3kids

I was just out blog hopping! ~Erica

babies

8:05 AM, Jul. 27, 2007 .. Posted by Anonymous

we are due about 10 days apart!!!!
You would not believe how many friends I have, having babies this year. I don't know about you, but it's great, not to be alone in the world of birthing.

I'm due the 15th, you're do the 5th of Jan., right?

Sara Varghese

hopping

10:21 PM, Aug. 4, 2007 .. Posted by Anonymous

Just blog-hopping from Ann-Marie's site while I nurse. :-)
We're fellow homeschoolers, with four kids, and it's always interesting to see what other people are planning for the year. We use Sonlight and Saxon.
Wendy