Looking forward to the new school year

We started school on Sept 10 and we've been having fun. This year we are doing a modified version of the Student of the Word curriculum. We're liking it so far and I am SO thankful to have followed the leading of the Holy Spirit and made the change. Our science this year consists exclusively of Anatomy...YIKES - I guess that will include "ALL" of our anatomy...that part I'm not looking so forward to! LOL Right now we are doing the Missouri Daillies work book for our history - our main part of history will begin around Christmas when we will begin the life of Christ.

She's taking some additional classes for science, art & sticks. She was going to take violin until I picked up the case and the violin dropped out onto the garage floor and cracked up the center. :( SO sad!!!

Here's to another great homeschooling year!!!

An update to the Figure 8 layout

The Sharpie kept coming off with my dry erase markers so I purchased some clear contact paper and placed it over the top. The dry erase marker wouldn't come off of that without the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser so we gave washable markers a try and they worked coming off with a wet wipe!

Blessings...

During lunch today my daughter sat down with her food while I was cutting up mine with my back to her at the counter. She said "thank you", I said "for what?", she said "for staying home with me each day and homeschooling me"...WOW - that was awesome!!! I almost cried! I didn't think she'd EVER like/appreciate being homeschooled...Thank you God!!!

We "unofficially" started school today...

I thought we'd "ease" into this new school year so we just did some things on the computer and such today. I was going to install her Teaching Textbooks and have her do math but lo-n-behold the cd's weren't in the package...yikes. I purchased this at the St. Louis Homeschool Expo in April and never even opened it until today. Thankfully, I still had my receipt (I keep them ALL :) and gave them a call...a sweet girl on the other line took a look at my account and is going to send them to me...Thank you Lord!!!

Here's a recent pic from her losing her tooth the other night: