A Melbourne Family just starting out on the homeschooling Journey in Australia using Sonlight. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/juniperkids/ en-us Homeschool Blogger Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:01:00 -0600 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:01:00 -0600 hiya Well i have been exercising by doing situps etc and my body is sore today i just wanted to climb back into bed and hide. Things aren;t going to plan but we are getting there. At least the boys have done there chores which is so great. They are real blessings my two boys. Isaac is having another bad day. he is not sleeping very well and only napped for 30 minutes this morning and so he is tired and it shows.. Crying alot. But thats ok its his job. Well i have done my lords table and united front course with settingcaptives free. Great coursed there and really well worth doing. They are at www.settingcaptivesfree.com I really like doing them and the team there are really good in helping people with the lords help getting free of things that captive you. Like weight, and other problems. well i need to go Isaac needs a bottle and we need to go finish school :) hope you all have a great day those who read this :) angel http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/juniperkids/478849/ Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:01:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/juniperkids/478849/ Hi well after the boys went away with there grandparents and aunty and uncle for all of friday and came back saturday afternoon they are still a little tired but doing good. They were very tired on saturday and yesterday they were bouncing back. And today they are still a little grumpy but have nearly bounced back to them full selves. Where me on the other hand Isaac slept through for the first time in 3 nights. Yay. Not last night but the 2 nights before hand he was waking up every 15-30 mins from about midnight. Sometimes it was every 5 mins. I would settle him and he would be sleeping just get into bed and asleep and then he would wake up. I am not sure what was up with him but he slepted last night which is great. So i have been a little dopey if you know what i mean. We are going to go out and do school soon. Isaac is napping and we just need to finish our chores and off we go. angel http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/juniperkids/478071/ Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:49:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/juniperkids/478071/ hiya well not much has been happening here. Just the normal routine of school and doing daily chores. Very boring i would say so. I am really liking blogging but sometimes its hard to know what to write about. So i haven't posted. My sister in law was going to have a look at my blog but i am not sure if she has gotten here yet... if you have please leave a comment. The work men are still working on the street outside our house and will most likely will be for hte next 2 months or even longer. So far they have taken the top of the road and then dug down about half a metre. Then they dug down even more and replaced pipes i think because from 8am till when they had finished they had to cut our water off. it was like that for 2 days. They were really nice about it and came and told us first. They always put it back on when they had finished for the day so at least we had it at night. It didn't really muck our day around to much. Exccept they are a distraction. The boys are loving having them work out the front they spend alot of there free time standing by the window watching the workers work. If they could they would stay there all day. Its cute because later on they pretend they are workers and do digging etc. THe little one isaac is doing great now too. He turns 7mths this month and is getting so big. He is now eating rice cereal in the mornings, apple puree for lunch and pumpkin for dinner. What a big boy he is getting. Growing so fast. Hes nearly sitting and has been moving around for a while now. Not crawling as such but he manages to move around his cot alot and when on the floor he moves around too. Manily rolling but at times you see him on his tummy kicking his legs and pulling with his hands to get what he wants. they grow up so fast angel http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/juniperkids/474513/ Mon, 4 Feb 2008 18:07:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/juniperkids/474513/ we have been doing pretty good. The boys have learnt alot and they have learnt more from the work men working out the front of hte house. Isaac is doing well. I am doing ok just have to wait to see a specialist now. Still in pain but thats ok. angel http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/juniperkids/471453/ Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:02:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/juniperkids/471453/ hiya Well today is Sunday and its the weekend yay, especially as its a long weekend this weekend. We have Monday off as well as its a public hoilday. I came online as someone had posted a comment on one of my posts and i couldn't access it. Due to the fact that i hadn't put all across the html when i changed it to show what i wanted on it. So for a time there i went back to a normal template and now i have added most of my stuff back but for some reason i can't get my Picture that i really want on my blog for a title. I made it in Paint Shop Pro so i really want it there. So at the moment it will stay off until i can work out the kinks and get it back on. I am glad i fixed most of it and i now can read comments. Thank you Sadie for the comment, i really liked it. On monday, Darrian and Daniel are going on a field trip with there Daddy, Grandparents and some aunty and uncles. They are going on a all day 4wd driving trip a really bumpy one at that. The boys are so excitted about going. I told them it was a school feild trip to learn whats 4wd driver is all about. It bascially is a feild trip, that they will learn alot about. I think they are going Baccas Marsh and they will be in the car which is not really suitable for little Isaac at the moment. He is just to little and being in the car all day is going to hammer him. Plus if he starts crying there is not much i can do to calm him. So we decided that it was best that we stayed home. So that is what we are doing. I am going to have a relaxing day with Isaac and do bits and pieces around the house that i haven't managed to do yet. maybe watch a movie or 2. Well i will see how it goes. :) so much fun :0 angel http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/juniperkids/469013/ Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:45:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/juniperkids/469013/ Hiya well today the day starts of with huge trucks and lots of noise as they are working on the road outside our house. The boys are running round the house like they have there heads cut off from excitment, due to all the trucks and the digger. So much excitment. Yesterday they had decided that there were dinasours in our back yard because they saw some huge foot prints. It was so cute as they went out as spy's trying to find the dinasours that were envading there back garden. Then they spent room time looking out the window looking for the dinasours. Very cute. They are now running around the back garden having a blast. angel http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/juniperkids/466976/ Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:20:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/juniperkids/466976/ hiya well another school day all done. It actually isn't that bad and the boys love doing school. Darrian really likes doing writing and so far he knows how to write f and he is learning B. Daniel is doing really well with the DEL Books. Not bad at all. Isaac is not sleeping very well lately so today he only went down for half a hour which is unusual for him and so i spent alot of time resettling him and going back. Back and forth i went. He really only settled down when i finally picked him up and he went straight to sleep in my arms. Which i need to train him out of that because i can't hold him all the time. not much else is happening around here. I am still sore last night was pretty bad as the other side was sore too. Not to meantion when i went for a skid on the floor and nearly went through the glass sliding door. I recovered and pulled myself out of the slide along the floor to land on the floor jaring my back and sides. I thought i would be sore today as i did that today but nope not to bad actually. The boys are really doing great. They have settled down alot and are really enjoying school. The thing i am finding hard is keeping them busy all day long. They do school from 8am - 10am and then they do the rest of there chores, play till lunch time. After lunch they have room time at 1pm till 3pm and then free time till hubby gets home at 4pm and then the rest of day is always a jumbly till they go to bed at 7pm. i think i really need to get organised. well need to feed little one, cya angel http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/juniperkids/465601/ Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:36:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/juniperkids/465601/ Hiya well its monday here and its a new week. Last week we didn't manage to get as much done of school as i hoped being as i was sick. We got some done but i wish we could have done more. Today we did school and it went really well. Darrian is doing great with writing numbers etc and daniel is doing really well with the DELL books etc. Isaac is doing better since we have changed his formula to a soy based one. We think he has a allergy to cow based formula like daniel did. So after a day on it hes doing alot better as he is not spitting up so much. I am still in pain with what they think i have a cyst on my overary which is causing stabbing pains on my left side. I have been booked in for a ultrasound but the earliest appointment is on the 29th of this month. Just over a week away. Hopefully the pain dies down alittle because right now if i spend to much time on my feet its painful and resting helps alot. well i better go Isaac is wanting to play and the boys need some attendtion too. angel http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/juniperkids/464932/ Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:44:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/juniperkids/464932/ Well today i did school and finished it.. Then i watched some tv shows i had recorded when the boys went to room time. Feeling pretty good today. I have restarted my courses at setting captives free and enjoyed doing them. I did the lords table as i am trying to lose weight. I have lost 13kgs since Nov Last year and i have 20 kgs to go to get to my goal weight of 65kgs. yay. Feeling good. angel http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/juniperkids/460835/ Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:26:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/juniperkids/460835/ Well one week has hit the dust and another is starting :) Its before 7am and the boys are still sleeping which is a good thing because they have had so many late nights lately. Darrian loves doing science and maths. He is really enjoying it this year. We have decided that we are going to do Core C over a year and a half which means he will finish up in July  09. This way Daniel will have started some writing etc because he really wants to write. They are 19mths apart but Daniel is trying to narrow the gap all the time. I am going to see how Daniel does and just give him the work he wants to do. I don't expect them to be on the same level when we are done. I am just going to see how it goes. Well i better go and check my emails we have to start school in a hour or so. Still have baby to finish feeding and put to bed again. I still have to finish the html for this blog too. Angel http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/juniperkids/460525/ Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:44:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/juniperkids/460525/