my blessed life

I can't believe how fast this year has gone by!  Looking back over it all, it has been a really great year with lots of positive strides and so much learning.  I'm really proud of what my kiddos have accomplished this year.  It's amazing to think that they have completed 2nd and 4th grades and we're now beginning our 6th year of homeschooling (well, longer than that if you count preschool, right?).  Fifth and Third grades, here we come! I was looking over my post from the beginning of the year about our curriculum for this year and seeing what had stuck/changed/been modified.  That's always interesting to do!  And it turns out that we stuck fairly close to the plan with just a few changes. In our Biblical  studies, we ended up not using God's Great Covenant this year.  I still love it and I haven't ruled it out for the future, but the format just wasn't working for us this year.  So we continued with reading through The Bible Story...

It has been a lovely week!  One of those weeks where most things go the way they are supposed to go and you just really enjoy life.  I {heart} those kind of weeks! In my life this week... It all started with a wonderful Sunday.  We had such a great time of worship at our church.  It's incredibly exciting to see what God is doing in our community!   Lunch out with the family is always fun, especially when you find a yummy new restaurant.  I was able to finally have that pulled pork bbq sandwich that I was craving.   It has been so refreshing to my soul to have lots of sunshine this week, too.  It seems as though spring is finally here.  The winter has seemed so long, but the reward of spring is worth the wait, I think.   Lovely warm temps, much-needed outdoor play time for the kiddos, time spent loving on our sweet dog, Holly, our first grill-out on the deck, our first picnic, flying kites, park time with ...

It has been a few weeks since I've had a chance to do a weekly wrap-up.  I can hardly believe it's already April!!  March definitely was a whirlwind for us, but that's to be expected when we celebrated two birthdays and Easter all in one month! In our homeschool this week... We buckled down and really got some work done.   Shhhhh .....don't tell my kiddos but each day this week (except for today, when we have co-op) we accomplished two days of school work!!  Yea!!  After looking at the calendar I decided we need to make a little better time in order to be able to take a summer break when we need to do so.  So I am lesson planning accordingly.  We won't do this every week, but maybe every other.   (the kiddos looking at slides of winged insects for science) I am however incredibly in need of a Spring Break though.  But rather than taking off a whole week at a time, I plan to spread out some "impromptu" Spring Break days ...