I am sorry for the long absence.  As you all know, life just gets busy sometimes.  We have not done a ton of structured activities in the classroom lately.  We did get up to the letter S in the Veritas curriculum.  Both boys now know all of the letters and their sounds, so doing the work doesn't seem to be as much fun as it once did.  Since we are way ahead of schedule, I have decided to back off a bit for now. 

     We did get some books at the library to explore.  Randy has not developed a taste for any particular type of book as of yet, so I picked out three to try.  They are... "Bridge to Terebithia," "Little House in the Big Woods," and, "The Box Car Children."  My hopes were that he would fall in love with at least one of these, but he has actually got me reading to him from all three!  Being an avid reader myself I find great joy in this.  It will be interesting to see how long it takes for us to get through them.

     Another thing we have been doing lately, mainly to fight the winter blues and cabin fever, is going to the museum.  Our museum has a wonderful children's museum as well.  We can spend hours there at our visits and the boys never seem to get bored!  I have gone ahead and purchased a membership.  I am certain that the museum will prove to be a big part of our learning journey.

     I wish I had more to write about at the moment.  I am sure that if I had more time to sit here and write that I could indeed come up with more.  Hopefully the upcoming weeks will prove to be less busy and that will be the case later.  Thank you for not giving up on me!