So yesterday was our first "official" home school day and it went really well. I was quite pleased with myself. The Kids decided they want to read Charlotte's Web, which I LOVE, so we started that yesterday and got a quarter of the way through it in one sitting. I created little bins with an assortment of things for the kids to do while I read, there is paper, crayons a notepad and one special Item, Such as Bizy has some lacing shapes (Her sewing). This worked amazingly well!!! WE also had a mini lesson on anatomy, I got some books form the library and we went through a couple of them, discussing different things. Then we had 'Mom; time, where I let each child choose what they want to do, Bubba just wants to read alot, so we read all sorts of Dr. Seuss books, and other books he chooses from the book shelve. Bizy wants to learn to read, so we've started 100 Easy Lessons. She also got this cool crunch art thing for Christmas, and we did that too. Buddy is WAY into math so we played Cash Flow for Kids, and he LOVED it.
All in all I feel very good about the way the day went yesterday. Though I still have a lot of organizing to do, my family room is a disaster. I have all the home school stuff out and I am going through it all, and finding places for it.
I also joined a fitness assessment through Curves, my first workout was last night. My sister-in-law and I are doing it together. I was so saddened when I saw my weight, and even more sad when I saw my body fat %. :( We will be going three times a week, in the morning and hopefully this will kick start myself into weight loss mode. Now that I am not nursing, the weight should come off fairly fast.... I hope.....
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Yay! It's Official
So Friday I spent the day running around getting my papers notarized and dropping them off to the district. Buddy is Officially home schooled!! Yay!!! We went and said goodbye to his teacher and cleaned out his desk, he kept going on and on about how excited he was about home school. I home schooled him last year and decided grudgingly to put him in public school for 1st grade. Well during this last 'off track' month I decided that I didn't want to send him back, so after talking with my husband over and over,finally I just had us listed to Cor and Love of learning a Recipe For Success, from Rachel and Oliver DeMill. We listed to it on the way home from our trip to Denver last week. After listening to it Jason decided that yes, that is what he wanted, and that is was ultimately my choice. So YAY!!! It's Official!!! I am so excited!!
I completely cleaned out my pantry and took most of the food to our cold storage area so I could use the pantry closet for home school stuff. SO this week Will be all about organizing and getting things in order.
On a side note I start watching My nephew again this week which mean I get to get up at 5:45 am. I really think this is a good thing, as I haven't been getting up before 8:30 since buddy's been off track, I know I am a slacker!! Once we start the new business though I wont be watching him anymore, so I am in hopes that I create a new habit of waking up early between now and then *sigh*
I completely cleaned out my pantry and took most of the food to our cold storage area so I could use the pantry closet for home school stuff. SO this week Will be all about organizing and getting things in order.
On a side note I start watching My nephew again this week which mean I get to get up at 5:45 am. I really think this is a good thing, as I haven't been getting up before 8:30 since buddy's been off track, I know I am a slacker!! Once we start the new business though I wont be watching him anymore, so I am in hopes that I create a new habit of waking up early between now and then *sigh*
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
And it begins
I have never blogged before, so here goes.
A little Intro, I am Liv, 25 I have been married to Jason for 7 years. We have four kids; Buddy, Bizy, Bubba, and Manu. I home school my kids, though Bud has been in school for the first part of the year. I want to take him out again, and home school him full time. With homeschooling our family chooses to use a classical education, specifically Thomas Jefferson Education. I LOVE having my children close to me. Currently Bud is 'off track' in public school and I have completely love having him home. He is supposed to go back on Monday the 22ND, but I really don't want to take him back. I've asked him also what he wants, he says he wants to be home as well.
Anyhow, I also just quit dance, I am sad really because I LOVE it, but it takes up too much time. I am there three nights a week and it is just too much. We also took Bizy out as well, it was like pulling teeth to get her to go sometimes, though the majority of the time she loved it. I've decided that in a few years when is is consciously her choice, I will enroll her then.
Jason and I are in the middle of a refinance on our house, our payment will be going down about $90.00 a month, and we are rolling in the debt we have for the finishing of the basement and the left over consumer debt we've had. I am excited to be mostly 'out of debt'. We will just have the car payments, student loans and our mortgage, but with this $$ freed up we will be able to get it all payed down faster.
After the remodel is done we are planning on starting out own business, a pc gamming/pizza place. Jason has wanted to start a PC gamming place forever, and I LOVE this tiny pizza place called Rising Crust, so we are going to do a combo. I think they will compliment each other quite well.
I suppose that is all for now. I plan on 'blogging' at least once a week, hopefully more, but we will see if time works in favor of that or not.
L
A little Intro, I am Liv, 25 I have been married to Jason for 7 years. We have four kids; Buddy, Bizy, Bubba, and Manu. I home school my kids, though Bud has been in school for the first part of the year. I want to take him out again, and home school him full time. With homeschooling our family chooses to use a classical education, specifically Thomas Jefferson Education. I LOVE having my children close to me. Currently Bud is 'off track' in public school and I have completely love having him home. He is supposed to go back on Monday the 22ND, but I really don't want to take him back. I've asked him also what he wants, he says he wants to be home as well.
Anyhow, I also just quit dance, I am sad really because I LOVE it, but it takes up too much time. I am there three nights a week and it is just too much. We also took Bizy out as well, it was like pulling teeth to get her to go sometimes, though the majority of the time she loved it. I've decided that in a few years when is is consciously her choice, I will enroll her then.
Jason and I are in the middle of a refinance on our house, our payment will be going down about $90.00 a month, and we are rolling in the debt we have for the finishing of the basement and the left over consumer debt we've had. I am excited to be mostly 'out of debt'. We will just have the car payments, student loans and our mortgage, but with this $$ freed up we will be able to get it all payed down faster.
After the remodel is done we are planning on starting out own business, a pc gamming/pizza place. Jason has wanted to start a PC gamming place forever, and I LOVE this tiny pizza place called Rising Crust, so we are going to do a combo. I think they will compliment each other quite well.
I suppose that is all for now. I plan on 'blogging' at least once a week, hopefully more, but we will see if time works in favor of that or not.
L
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