She still looks like she's 4 years old to me. But she's now seven. Sigh! I can't get the photo to load! Sniff!    Here's a link...

We had a party at our community beach. It was a small group, but we had a lot of fun! Thank you for everyone that made it and we missed you if you were unable to come.

I remember being seven. I thought I was all grown up! It was also they year my baby brother was born and my cousin came to live with us for a year. IT was a bit difficult going from a single child to one of three. We survived somehow. Or should I say, my parents survived!?!

Anyway, time moves on. I don't remember the last time I looked at a Baby Talk Magazine or One Step Ahead Catalog.

Now I’m worried about math and language arts curriculum for my 7^th grader! You have to figure out where you want your child to end and work backwards. If I want her to take Pre-Cal in 12^th, then it’s Algebra 2 in 11^th, Geometry in 10^th, etc….

With working full time, I also wanted to pick a curriculum that had a bit more accountability for Language Arts. I don’t want to skip the research reports or essays that are so important for their futures. So I’m going to try SOS for my 7^th grader.

The HEAV homeschool convention in this coming weekend. Thursday – Saturday! I love this time of year, just to focus on my marriage, family, and homeschool. I do hope my clients won’t mind that I’ll be unavailable for most of that time. I’m a bit concerned because this weekend was very quiet in relation to work. Two dead weekends could be dangerous! But my hope is that God is being gracious so I could refresh and focus on my 7 year old’s birthday and then the convention next weekend.

I continue to do most of my blog writing at CarolineVABlog.com . We just purchased SpotsyVABlog.com. As I expand my advertisement to Spotsylvania County, we thought we had better go ahead and buy the blog name before someone else did - even if we’re just forwarding it for now. Hope you can visit us over there if you’re from the area…

Three more days of official school! I'm excited and obviously, so are the kids. I can't wait to take our "school hours" and take them to the beach or the pool instead of saying "is your schoolwork done yet?" Yes, we'll still have some work to do this summer, but I'm not going to be intense about it like I am during the year.

I would like to catch up on our literature reading and some historical movies. Then we'll get in some hours of play. And then I hope to use the rest of the time for a productive working summer. Hopefully the homeschool convention will have a few classes on balancing work and homeschool.

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Posted by Matthew Rathbun

Maybe it's time that we dug her up a lil brother....

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