Happy faces! That was the look that the kids had on their dials yesterday. I had finally got around to joining the children up on Mathletics (an online Australian-based maths site) so yesterday was spent playing and familiarising ourselves with how the site works. Needless to say, the kids enjoyed themselves and mum was happy too.

I was encouraged to see where they showed up in their 'school' grade levels, seeing how well the kiddos went yesterday being one of the reassurances for me that when 'life' happens to disrupt the academic side of our homeschool the life-learning kicks in and carries the children along in their learning. I know, I know! This is something that the Lord and experience has demonstrated to me again and again that life-learning with my children is something to embrace and value .......  (hasn't the last five years of home education taught ME anything) ......, and so, my concerns have been put aside (again) and we continue on into our new 'school' year with a new maths program and suppliments from other more paper-based resources.