Friday ended on an up note for the first week of homeschooling. We need to find our groove and schedule while remembering one of the reasons we wanted to home school was to slow us down and have more peaceful days (we’ll see about that). So with that in mind I do not want to be stringent on our schedule but also desire not to be so fly by the seat of our pants either...so a happy medium I am sure we will find. Regardless of being in public, private or home school kids, as well as teachers & moms are always TGIF!!!
We had a wonderful weekend enjoying the company of our dear friends the Millers from Maryland. Ryan and Sandi and their 4 girls came to visit and it could not have been a better visit (well only if they had stayed longer)!! Their girls range in age from 7 to 7 months as do ours...however they have one more blessing tucked in their pack than we do the kids played great together. Sandi is a homeschooler and was great encouragement to me in figuring out a plan for us with school. She gave me some great insights that I can try as well as helping me figure out a worksheet, yes a 2nd grade worksheet, that did not make sense to me. She agreed that the directions/activity were not the greatest but did show me what they were talking about. I felt silly last week when it didn't make sense but decided to ask her anyway!
We stayed up late talking on Saturday night and then got up early for church on Sunday! They got to come and experience the launce of the Read Mountain Campus at FCC, which means we watched the recorded Saturday at 6:00 service, while the RMC had Pastor Ken preach live. It was a great service and you hardly noticed that he was not actually there!! Check it out here if you want to learn more... www.fcclife.org
After church and many introductions we headed out to lunch at Dynasty, one of our kids favorites, you know everyone loves a Chinese buffet for the chicken, fries, fruit and ice cream. Well most kids anyway and it was a hit! We went back to our house after lunch for little one to nap, the hubbies and older kids played Rock Band, and Sandi and I visited some more! We ended our visit later that afternoon with Todd's favorite… a photo shoot!! Taking pictures my husband does not mind but when it turns into many different combinations and retake after retake he looses his enthusiasm. So at least I continue to give him good "material". Well that was our wonderful weekend...now I guess it is time to start school! Stay tuned for updates this week on how we continue to walk through the 2nd grade adventure!!
We had a wonderful weekend enjoying the company of our dear friends the Millers from Maryland. Ryan and Sandi and their 4 girls came to visit and it could not have been a better visit (well only if they had stayed longer)!! Their girls range in age from 7 to 7 months as do ours...however they have one more blessing tucked in their pack than we do the kids played great together. Sandi is a homeschooler and was great encouragement to me in figuring out a plan for us with school. She gave me some great insights that I can try as well as helping me figure out a worksheet, yes a 2nd grade worksheet, that did not make sense to me. She agreed that the directions/activity were not the greatest but did show me what they were talking about. I felt silly last week when it didn't make sense but decided to ask her anyway!
We stayed up late talking on Saturday night and then got up early for church on Sunday! They got to come and experience the launce of the Read Mountain Campus at FCC, which means we watched the recorded Saturday at 6:00 service, while the RMC had Pastor Ken preach live. It was a great service and you hardly noticed that he was not actually there!! Check it out here if you want to learn more... www.fcclife.org
After church and many introductions we headed out to lunch at Dynasty, one of our kids favorites, you know everyone loves a Chinese buffet for the chicken, fries, fruit and ice cream. Well most kids anyway and it was a hit! We went back to our house after lunch for little one to nap, the hubbies and older kids played Rock Band, and Sandi and I visited some more! We ended our visit later that afternoon with Todd's favorite… a photo shoot!! Taking pictures my husband does not mind but when it turns into many different combinations and retake after retake he looses his enthusiasm. So at least I continue to give him good "material". Well that was our wonderful weekend...now I guess it is time to start school! Stay tuned for updates this week on how we continue to walk through the 2nd grade adventure!!
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