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  • First Day of School!

    Today is the first day of our new school year. Jake is a 5th grader and Adam is in 2nd. It is so hard to believe my boys are that old! Where has the time gone? This marks the beginning of our 6th year of home educati…

  • Hot and buggy and some planning too

    I really don't like hot. It is hot here now. Hot and buggy. Mosquitos really like me. I don't like them at all. They like Jake a lot too. Poor boy is quite bitten up right now. They don't want to go outside in thi…

  • Planning

    We spent the weekend relaxing, recovering, a little work around the house, knitting, etc. It was nice. W. was home to do some things with the boys and help with some house tasks. I am about 1 pattern repeat (24 rows) …

  • This and that

    Where has this week gone? I can't believe it is Friday already. We've had a semi-busy week. Activities are beginning to taper off and end. One more soccer game next week (a make up). Swimming ended this week as well…

  • Spring Fever

    Spring Fever has sprung out all over the place. The days are getting warmer and longer. We don't want to do many lessons anymore. We just want to play. I tend to go lighter this time of year anyway. We are in our la…

  • Mixed bag

    Our furnace went out yesterday. We were talking about how the change in the weather really made us feel cold and we just couldn't seem to get warm. Well, uh, there was a reason for that. The furnace wasn't working! T…

  • Week in Review

    This was a much better week in all respects! No doctor's appointments with lots of needles, no disease ridden children, no tantrums (oh wait, yeah, a couple of those did happen -- but not bad ones. I was pretty good! …

  • Math tip Monday

    Adam is working on finding 10 more than and 10 less than with 3 digit numbers this morning. Most of them are easy. A few tricky ones have appeared like 301. Ten less than requires a whole new 100's digit. A bit trick…

  • Weekly Review

    This has been a decent week, school-wise. We did take off on Monday, since dad was home. We met another WTM family at the science museum and then to a park to play for bit. It was fun! They kids had a good time and I…

  • Continued school stuff

    I started talking about our week in review yesterday. I'll just finish up here with the other "regular"subjects we cover.Math: Adam is finishing up his last chapter in MCP A and simultaneously working in book B. He ju…