Whew! Homeschooling has been such a whirlwind since we started in January! I finally feel like we have a good routine in place. We absolutely cannot go by the clock at this point in our lives because having a preschooler and baby in the house makes for many interruptions. I heard one homeschooler say once "when there's poop, there's poop, and school stops!" That is absolutely true!
Gracie is learning so much and makes my job of teaching her so easy. If there is one thing I wish could be different, it would be for us to find a co-op group. The one we were supposed to be a part of is temporarily cancelled. And because of illness, we haven't left the house much! But in spite of that, the girls have been playing together well (for the most part). We are reading and learning together, and that was my original vision!
I have been stressing over what curriculum to use for first grade. I love pouring over curriculum and would even love to write my own someday. But one day that was particularly hard for me as I was agonizing over what decisions to make, Jesus spoke. I was given a book recently that has been so amazing at reaching me right where I am. It is called Jesus Calling by Sarah Young. The passage that helped me on that day said, "I am leading you, step by step, through your life. Hold my hand in trusting dependence...I will show you the next step forward, and the one after that, and the one after that. Relax and enjoy the journey." Wow! Jesus is good. It brought me immediate comfort and reminded me that I don't have to have everything planned out from here to high school graduation! It is amazing how God opens up their little minds to learn and helps all the pieces fall into place.
Another book recommendation is called God's Guest List by Debbie Macomber. It is all about having your eyes wide open to the people God brings into our lives. You never know who God may put on the list or why, so you best give people your attention! You never know how they may help you or how you may help them. Thanks, Mom, for sending me the book!
Thoughts, quotes, and poems on raising and homeschooling 3 little women. Ephesians 2: 8-10--For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." ~William Butler Yeats
Monday, February 27, 2012
Monday, February 13, 2012
Some Favorite Moments
Gracie
*seeing her wiggle her first loose tooth!
*watching her write cursive
*seeing how excited she is to take in some Valentine's Day cards to her K class tomorrow
*Gracie was looking at a picture of Jim and me from our honeymoon. In one of the pictures I was sitting on Jim's lap .
Gracie: "Dad, did that hurt you?"
Jim: "No."
Gracie: "I bet it would hurt now!"
Thanks so much, Gracie!
Madelyn
*Madelyn looked at the honeymoon pictures, too. She saw one of Jim lounging on a chair and smiling.
Madelyn: "Where am I in this picture?"
Jim: "You weren't born yet."
Madelyn: "Where is Gracie?"
Jim: "We didn't have any kids yet."
Madelyn: "Is that why you're smiling?"
Kids are so funny!
*She put her stuffed puppy dog in the blue Bumbo seat and sat him next to Lily so he could look out the front door with her.
Aubrey
*she discovered her right arm
*blows spit bubbles
*has starting laughing but gets the hiccups everytime
*she loves to talk to us
*finally got held by her big sisters!
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