What a great year we are having so far! The kids and I feel all so much more organized and relaxed. We are really following the Well Trained Mind. THANK YOU Susan Wise Bauer and your mom Jessie Wise! We love what we are learning in Ancient History    and the kids enthusiastically share with their Papa in the evenings all that they learned that day.  The kids have gotten into good study habits, get done pretty quickly and we have the rest of the day to keep learning and playing. My middle son, A., started "school" at 9 am, finished at 12:30, ate lunch and since then has played golf in the back yard (he stopped once he realized a golf ball AAAALLLLMOST hit our livingroom window!), started a sewing project (a boy doll), flattened a penny with a hammer, and looked at paper under the microscope, now wants to start make a truck out of an oatmeal container, and its not even 3 pm....yeah homeschooling!