5 Adjectives and Game Day

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5 Adjectives –

Ree @ Confessions of a Pioneer Woman had an interesting post today.  And, she asked for us to reply with 5 adjectives to describe ourselves.  Mine were – almost without thinking….

  1. Wife
  2. Mom
  3. Teacher
  4. Grieving
  5. Believer

What are yours?

Game Day –

Today we were all dragging.  J3 still had a sore throat…my allergies are kicking my butt again….and I had some cleaning I wanted to do.  I just couldn’t bring myself to do the standard Reading, Writing and Math – ok, it’s more than that…but you get the point, right?

Instead the boys and I played games.  Mainly card games…with breaks for me to clean the bathroom, the boys to vacuum (and me to revacuum), and the like.

It was a nice break from normal lessons and we all seemed to enjoy it – hope to do it again soon!  In fact, I hope to be teaching J1 how to play Cribbage…I thought we had already done that, but I guess not.  Looking forward to that!

Scheduling, Menu planning, and whatever else I ramble on about…

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Scheduling ~ Lately, my life is pretty crazy.  Well, crazy for me — the girl who prefers to stay at home and never leave it!  But as running around also affects the boys and their school time, I have a pretty good excuse to ground myself. 😉

We have a homeschool park day on Wednesdays from 2-4pm.  We’ve also been doing a library trip before it at 1pm.  Sadly, when we get there on time, we are often the only ones there for quite awhile 🙁 and due to leaving at 4pm, we are often the first to leave. :(  But due to Awanas on Wed night, we need to get home to get clean and have dinner.

So, I’ve decided that I’m only doing appointments (Dr, dental, therapies) on Wednesday mornings.  Anything else is just too big a disruption to our schooling and my peace of mind.  That means that Wednesdays will be a ‘lighter’ day of schoolwork too – just Bible & history – the boys will be thrilled! lol

Hope it helps!!

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Menu planning ~  Last night I looked up and realized it was 5pm and I didn’t have a clue what we were going to do for dinner.  I try and try to get fired from this responsibility, but it hasn’t worked.  Guess I need to make peace and get a plan!

So, I’m going to create a dinner menu and then go shopping!  Here’s hoping it works!

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Rambling ~ Being at my SIL’s last week was great on sooo many levels!  Not only did we get out of our house! ;-)  but she is FLYing and doing a GREAT job of it!  A great reminder to me that I don’t have to live like this!  Time to take control of my life again and quit whining!   (But I’ll warn you now – if you are looking for me to be an excellent FLYer – you will be disappointed.  I usually do about 25% of what FlyLady suggests, find peace and ignore the rest.  But as peace is my goal, I’m happy!)

Off to make a menu plan and shine my sink!  TTYL!

First Day of School

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It’s Done!!

We are waiting a week to start Science, but otherwise our first day of school at Cornerstone Academy (wow, I need to really update that page!) went well!

Here is what we are doing this year for each boy:

J1 (13 – Jr High) –

  • Bible – My Father’s World
  • Math – Teaching Textbooks Pre-Algebra
  • Science – Abeka
  • Spelling Power
  • Library for Reading
  • Journaling/Creative Writing
  • Ancient History w/Mrs Forney

J2 (11 – special learner – 5th grade) –

  • Bible – My Father’s World
  • Math – Teaching Textbooks 5
  • Science – My Father’s World
  • Pathway Readers/Workbooks
  • Social Studies – My Father’s World
  • Copywork/Dictation

J3 (7 – 2nd) –

  • Bible – My Father’s World
  • Math – Saxon 2
  • Science – My Father’s World
  • Pathway Readers/Workbooks
  • Social Studies – My Father’s World
  • Copywork/Dictation