The Here and Now

Seems like forever since I've sat down to post. Busy, busy here on the home front. Like most I know. Homeschooling gets better each week. We are fully flowing and adding in each kid the more routine we settle into. Little George now attends preschool Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and then "does" homeschool Tuesdays and Thursdays. Riley schools everyday. Even though she is not required to be with us, she always chooses to "do her homework." It is precious. She is super eager to know how to read. She wants to know what each word says, and if Im busy with Joshua, she just makes up the words. Usually it's just a combination of all the phrases she knows with a few nonsense words in between. "Jesus says do not be afraid, and then I do a kick with my dancing shoes." It's cute. Joshua is such a blessing to teach. I'm so excited about choosing curriculum for the summer and next school year. I've got a solid feel for what he is capable of and so choosing topics and subjects to focus on is so exciting. Since the seasons have changed, we've been doing lots of outside school, pool school, and most recently, travel school. Knowing all of our children are ocean obsessed, Jamie took us all to Atlanta to visit the Aquarium. It is the largest in the world. That I didn't know. So we spent 4 days in the middle of the city learning all about Atlanta's history, watching and talking about so many different ocean animals we had not seen, walking everywhere, playing in the Centennial Park, swimming late at night, sleeping in the same beds...and the list goes on. This trip was so much fun for our family. Pictures coming soon. We've been enjoying basketball camps, beach days, steaks on the grill, books on tape, and watching our plants grow. We are most eager for the water to warm so we can pile our surf boards into the van to catch some waves. Yay, it's here.