First Day of This Homeschool Year

Today was the day. We started back to school today. We didn't start till 10, and we took a 2-hour lunch break with my parents at "Waffle's House", as my DS used to call it. But that's the joy of homeschooling, at least one of them.

We are using Christian Light for Language Arts and Reading. DS likes it so much better already! We had a different curriculum last year, and we all dreaded school. I'm so very glad we switched! We're still using Saxon for math, and I think we'll stick with that. He's always begged to do more, and today was no exception. We're using Handwriting Without Tears. I shared some of the cute little stories and rhymes in there, and I think he's better about remembering the difference between b's and d's. He likes it anyway, and that's a big plus for me! We started Spanish classes. I hope I don't blunder with this one. I think it's important for him to learn another language, and Spanish is very common where we live. We are using Mystery of History again this year, and he started jumping up and down when I got the book out. For art for today, I let them both finger-paint with shaving cream. They had a good time getting messy with that! For science, we are doing Apologia's Zoology - Exploring Creation - Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day.

So today was fun, and my tummy is hungry. Now to get ready for supper :)

Our Not-Back-To-School Party

The public schools here began yesterday. The schoolbuses started up, and bleary-eyed children tumbled on them at a quarter to seven and didn't return until 4:30. Our original plan was to begin our school when public school began. But when I got to thinking about it, I wanted to plan something fun and special. So I called my friend here (who will remain anonymous), and we decided the perfect time to get donuts would be when the schoolbuses were finished and the rest of the world was doing their thing. So we called all our homeschooling friends who live close and planned to meet at the donut shop. I woke up my bleary-eyed children, and we all excitedly got ready to meet our friends.

Let me just say that we really like this new tradition, and we all decided that we must do it to begin next year as well and even some in between :) As usual, we all learn from our experiences, even the good ones. So next time, we will change some things. We absolutely packed that donut shop! Next time, we might just get donuts and go to the park to eat them so the children can run around and play it off. I think we will try to find a cheaper donut shop too. Of course, that just may be me. I haven't ever just bought a dozen donuts, and it seemed a trife expensive to me. One of my friends said there is another donut place across town that also has other things on the menu besides donuts and sweet stuff. While I love a good donut, and these were really good, I'm really watching what I eat now that I'm pregnant. I was glad that I ate before we went as they didn't have anything else.

The best part was getting to sit and be with my friends and watching my children laughing and playing and just having fun. We had 5 mothers and 14 children all in one place. The children were all well-behaved and all ages played together happily. One of the workers there commented to me on how good all those children were :) So to all you mothers, and you know who you are - Good job! And let's do it again soon!

Wonderful find!

My mama called me from a yard sale she was perusing. She told me to come quick because they had a bunch of homeschool stuff. Needless to say, I was there within 10 minutes. When I arrived, they did indeed have a bunch of homeschool stuff. I did not really have time to go through it all, but after looking for a bit, I realized it was good stuff. I asked how much for it all, and they told me that for all 5 crates (you know, the huge rubbermaid kind) they would take $20. Of course I snatched it all up. It filled up the whole back of my dad's truck! Then mama called again and said they found another crate. She's a pretty smart woman - she bought it for another $2. After going through it leisurely at home, it has a lot of reading things for elementary school and a bunch of astronomy and science things for high school. There was even a spectrometer! Of course, the thing my DS was most excited about was the lone baseball in the bottom of one crate.

Boys are Fishing

Well tonight the boys in my family went fishing. They got all packed up and loaded up and left. Well, this left DD very sad that she didn't get to go. So we went out and had pizza and then came home and she had some ice cream. That's when my hives started coming up. Now I've eaten at Pizza Hut numerous times. I used to work there! So I have no idea what I ate that is making me do this. I will have to be more careful.

Since they are gone tonight to catch me some yummy bass, DD and I are going to stay up late eating popcorn and watching old videos in bed :) We're in for a nice, cozy evening...

I've had this page for a while and never done anything with it. I kept it so I could view other people's blogs and comment. So now I think it's appropriate that the first post that I write is to announce that I am pregnant, and we are expecting our third blessing sometime around tax day. We are all so very excited about it, and we're getting into all the baby stuff again.

DS is desperately hoping for another boy so he won't be the only one.

DD is excited, but she's still young enough she thinks it's going to be a baby doll. We're working on that...

DH and I are working on names for either way.

DH's sister just had a baby boy recently, and so maybe they will eventually get to play together.

I had a couple of days feeling queasy, but for the most part, I'm feeling really good. I was worried that this pregnancy would bring with it the dreaded SPD like before, but so far not even a twinge. So for that I am very grateful and thank the Lord every day. Unfortuneately, my pants are already getting tight. I think they were starting to get too tight before I was even pregnant, so it's no one's fault but my own. I guess I'll go up in the attic some time this weekend maybe and see what kind of maternity clothes I still have.

My first outing after I found out, I looked at Walmart for maternity patterns in their craft department. Let me just say I was very disappointed to see that they don't have ANY. I went online and found a few, but now I have to find some place to get them. Probably Joann's will have them. I really enjoy sewing; I'm just not very good at it. It takes me a while.

I have high hopes of posting at least semi-freqently. Maybe it won't fall completely by the wayside. We'll have to wait and see.