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Wow, I can't believe I haven't blogged since February!!  I have got to do better.  All I can say is, I'm going to try...

So, let's see we have been crazy busy around here, so grab a cup of tea and let's get caught up :)

Dante is doing great.  He is 18 now and I am left in shock.  He will be out of school in a couple of weeks and then immediately leaves for a trip with one of his teachers to Greece and Turkey.  They will be studying Greek Mythology.  So he won't be home until June sometime.

Little Miss is great.  She is just all over the place with interests right now.  She is studying herbalism with me (we are supposed to go out on an herb walk this morning, so hopefully this rain will clear out).  We are also making our first quilt together - I can't promise it will be beautiful, but it will be done, and we will have learned a lot.  And Friday she spent most of the afternoon at the piano writing music.  So, she's an eclectic.

Sweetie Pie just turned 7 last month but she is still my little baby girl.  She is absolutely obsessed with horses right now.  And spends all her free moments, reading about, talking about, and playing with horses.  Oh, and I almost forgot - pretending to be a horse. Both girls have started to take some riding lessons, VERY casually, because I just couldn't take it anymore! LOL  No really, they have both been passionate about horses for months now, with no end in sight.  So I figured I had to find a way to let them follow their passions.  They are both a natural on the horse, so we will see how far they go with it.

My little Boo Bear is now 14 months and is absolutely adorable.  He is walking everywhere, making lots of mischief.  His favorite word is "No" and he says it constantly.  Actually it is generally more of an "uh-uh" with a shaking of the head.  Absolutely adorable.  He has admirers where ever we go and is generally just a really sweet good natured little guy.

School wise we finished up our Renaissance Unit a while ago.  We ended it with a trip to the Museum of Fine Art in Boston and just had a great time.  We went and saw the Renaissance art, of course, but also art from a variety of time periods all over the world.  I was amazed at the level of art knowledge coming out of my children's mouths!  It was just incredible.  When they compared art pieces to each other and discussed what made the impressionist art different from the Renaissance.  I was amazingly impressed.  Even one of the guards (there was a guard in every room) commented that he had never heard such young children with such a high level of art understanding.  So I was really impressed.

So now we are doing the PIlgrims and having a lot of fun with that.  In addition to our readings we are making a salt dough map of the 13 colonies.  And we are also doing the Evan Moor History Pockets on Life at Plymouth Plantation (my girls said that they love the History Pockets and hate lapbooks.  Go figure...)  We will finish up this unit with a trip to Plymouth Plantation.

This summer the girls are going to a Girl Scout Day Camp for 5 weeks.  Is it wrong for me to say that I can't wait??  They get along great for the most part, but have been getting on each other's nerves lately.  I think they could really use some time apart.  They will be in different groups at camp so that will be good for them.  I love homschooling them, but am looking forward to having a break from them too. And I am looking forward to some time alone with the baby.

So for the most part that gets everyone caught up in our life.  I WILL blog again soon!