Update!

Well, it's been awhile! It's been crazy for me with missions teams coming down and home schooling, and life in general. I'm at a point now where things, for me, should be slowing down a little! We'll see.

Home schooling update

We are plugging ahead with everything. We did a worm dissection yesterday, and that was real interesting. We were able to find everything and identify everything we needed to. I've been reading so long about worms, I know more than I ever really wanted to. The kids loved it. It was a fun afternoon for them.

I'm receiving some of my stuff for our next phase. Since we home school year round, I don't say "next year" it doesn't make sense because we just go until we start something new so we can be working on several grade levels at once for each child. Anyway, our new geography program is arriving in bits and pieces and I'm really looking forward to starting it. We are going to be doing the unit study with Holling C. Holling books. I'm waiting for 2 more books and the maps to arrive. The kids asked for this specifically because they remember doing it when they were younger and they really loved it. It'll be a nice switch from Trail Guides.

I'm done planning all our government, Chemistry, world view, history, art and music appreciation, poetry, nature studies, Shakespeare and Plutarch, and geography for our next phase. I need to figure out Math and LA, but, we have a little time for that yet, so I'm not too worried about getting it done so quickly.

Things are going well. Christopher finally has his times tables memorized and that is helping him out so much in his math (Saxon 54). Bailey is flying through her intro to Algebra text (Key to...), and Alicia is working through Algebra I (Teaching Textbooks). I'm still figuring out what we are going to do with Christopher for math. I have all the Saxon until Algebra I, so it just kills my frugal little heart to not use them. But, I have to admit, Saxon isn't really his thing. Math is too important, so I'm thinking it's time for a change for him. I'm really leaning toward Developmental Math. We'll see.

Family Update

God is good. He's so faithful. We are so grateful to be serving Him here in Guatemala. I'm so glad we were able to go home for a visit, but, it's good to be back. We are all healthy and happy. Mark is busy, but not so bad that we can't spend time with him.

Mark and I celebrate our 15th anniversary on Thursday. It seems like we just got married, but, it's really been 15 years. I'm so grateful for a Godly husband. I'm so thankful that he prays and seeks God for our family and the direction we will be going in. It's so easy to trust a man like that and it takes the stress off of me. I'm so grateful that he is so grounded and not easily flustered (unlike me). So, here's to another 15 years!

I'm still trying to figure out how to post charts here so I can share our menus and such. I'm not the most computer-savvy person, but, I'm hanging in there!