Seems I have this talent for falling off the face of the earth every so often.  Life gets so busy doesn't it?  Thing is I cannot, for the life of me, figure out why life gets so busy with just one child.  I know I have other irons in the fire but heavens to Betsy!

Well let me update the household.  Biggest news is we had a mini Biology lesson recently.  Fresco, DS's kitten, is now a Fresca.  Yep.  She's a girl!  DS is okay with it and calls her "his little girl."  He has become quite protective of her.  Sadie and I are glad to have another woman in the house, too. 

We have been busy and recently put on a marriage retreat for couples in DH's unit.  It was a success, we feel, and pray that it will impact those marriages and give them some help in remaining committed to each other.  We enjoy doing those and feel strongly about them.  We have a heart for marriage and especially the military marriages. 

We haven't officially started school yet.  We never really officially ended last year.  But again the Lord's faithfulness met me at my need and provided His plan for us yet again.  Another year that He moves us in a direction that is more focused on Him and using Him as the basis for our academics.  I see as I look back how each year He moves a little closer to Him as our 'curriculum' if you can say it that way.  I am excited.  It is definitely stretching me.  It is pushing me really on my "selfish" limits and causing me to purposefully be more engaged with DS and building our relationship.  That is what it is really about anyway, isn't it?  It isn't just schooling at home, it is relationships.  The Lord has shown me some things about myself I needed to see and shown me some things about DS I hadn't seen before.  Exciting times.

We are also going to be in a co-op for the first time.  I am so very excited about it.  I never thought a co-op would be something we would do but with having only one it does offer some benefits for us.  Plus it is a new one.  One of my former college roomies headed up starting this one up.  We are going to be called the Koinonia Co-op.  Greek word there.  Google it.  It is way cool the meaning behind it.  So DS will be getting science per his Mom, geography and art/music.  Cool.  I will be teaching Apologia's Astronomy and I am super excited about it.

That is about it for now.  I am sure there are things that have happened to share but they are coming to me right now.  I keep promising to do better about blogging and sharing especially what the Lord keeps showing me and teaching me.  Then that life thing gets in the way.  Thanks for hanging in there and checking in even if you don't get anything new for a while.

Happy New Schoolyear!