Well Hello Again!

Well hello again!   

I really thought I was done with blogging and this space but I'm feeling the itch to reconnect and talk about the last couple of years.

In a nutshell...I became chronically ill and we had to take a different course for homeschooling but now, were back!  I'm doing slightly better but I've decided that we needed to get back to what we loved which is reading, reading and more reading and...oh ya... and doing art.  Want to know a homeschool secret?  You need to pick what will work for you as well as what works for the kids and the reason I say that is if you dread the day it's not going to work...ever.  Just sayin..


So a couple of weeks ago I pulled out our stored Sonlight C curriculum and we jumped in!  I can now say that it's been the best couple of weeks since we ditched the electronic school and came back to relaxed homeschooling with Sonlgiht that we've had in literally years.  We also started using online Teaching Textbooks which I have resisted for years because everyone said it was behind but, guess what?  The kids do it and they don't complain and that's good enough for me for now.  Our family has two parents who went to college as science majors so we are familiar with what is required for math and I don't see anything wrong with using TT to get there.  Oh and did you see that I said online TT?  That was probably the best part for me because I can fix or watch things on-the-fly as the kids are completing it, or I can wait until the end of the day.  But probably the best part was to have it up and running in literally a couple of minutes and we were done after paying for it in 30 minutes. Instant gratification!

So for the details, as I know some internet friends may want to know, the kids do their reading from the HBL (core) and then do art journals for our history or science, whatever I feel like for that particular day,  then their math and I do our reading from the HBL when daddy is home...cause he wouldn't want to miss on all the fun, right? The kids do their other reading during quiet time after lunch, and that is our day...the rest of the day is theirs for biking, playing, exploring, discovering and just generally being kids.