Okay, so I had to put the emergency brakes on all of the WONDERFUL plans I had made for our homeschooling year.  As wonderful and organized as I thought they were, my little, new student didn't share the awe.  In fact, she was miserable . She wasn't challenged. She wasn't engaging. She was just not enjoying it at all.  Everything I had planned was great for my 4 yr old. She loved it.  But my 5 yr old, the one I was focusing on this year, just wasn't buying it.  So after much prayer and conversation with Nathan, we decided to back up and regroup.  We are ordering My Father's World  for her and starting over as soon as it gets here. 

   I asked some questions regarding our experience on some of the message boards I visited and I got a lot of great feedback.  I was mostly advised to keep on keeping on with what we were doing and that she would eventually engage.  I thought about that, but knowing my daughter like I do and having talked it over with my husband, we just really feel like she may already have the K-5 skills under her belt and needs to be challenged a bit more and with a bit more structure. She was starting to HATE the idea of homeschooling and I didn't want our first year to put a bad taste in her mouth for learning.  I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the Five in A Row series and I hope to continue to use it with anything we do now or in the future.  For now though, with a baby coming, MaJoR "morning" sickness still in full throttle, and lots of changes to come in the next few months, we think that more structure is needed for everyone. 

  So, I am not on the computer as much these days as it makes me sick to read on the screen.  I try and check my friends page at least every other day.  Sorry for not commenting though.  My prayer is that I start to feel a lot better before the MFW package comes. I would love to not have to bolt from a lesson to run to the bathroom every half and hour