Tuesday, August 28, 2007

It's that time again

It's time to start school around our house. Everyone of my children has asked me when we are going to start school- they are actually looking forward to it. (I will have to remind them of this in a few months when their question will become "Do we have to do school today?)

This is our eleventh year of homeschooling, and we will be graduating our first graduate in the Spring. Wow. We will have students in 12th, 10th, 6th and 3rd grades this year (and one in early pre-k). I am looking forward to doing a few things differently this year and using a few new things with the children. We pray God will bless our home, and we will have our greatest year of homeschooling yet.

We're back to cleaning out the basement. Ugh. I say we, but I haven't done anything down there. Last time I was down there I saw a mouse and that was it for me. I don't know how we have accumulated so much stuff/junk. We have been trying to get the basement cleaned out and useable since we moved into this house seven years ago. We do good for a while, then get busy and it gets trashed again. Hopefully this will be the one that will stick.

Paul has decided to get rid of our two tv's. We turned off the tv and cancelled cable about 4 years ago. But it has slowly creeped back into our home in the form of movies for the kids and tv at night for Paul and I. So he made the decision to take them out of the house, at least for now, maybe forever. So far the one who has suffered the most from this is Sam. He had gotten used to watching his videos and does not understand why he can't anymore. But he will adjust.

I saw the baby yesterday on ultrasound. I went in for my check up and being only 13 weeks, they couldn't hear the heartbeat with the doppler, so they sent me for a quick u/s. I get a little panicky when I go into the u/s room. It was in that room in Nov. of 2003 that the doc told me the baby's heart wasn't beating anymore. But this baby is fine. He/she was bouncing around, and at one point brought his/her hand to his/her mouth. I thought, "Oh no! Another thumb sucker!". It was so cute, but too early to tell whether a boy or girl. So that will have to wait for another month or two.

Have a great day.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Peace, thats what you felt when you saw your little one jumping around...peace. This is exciting, I'm sure you can't wait to find out what it is!

We started our school back a little bit this week...We were suppose to be completely started at the beginning of August, ooh well.

How do you think IEW will work out for you this year?

Anonymous said...

You've been tagged.

:-)

Jamie said...

SO glad to hear all is fine w/baby. I'm sure I will be pretty nervous the next time I get pregnant.

I'm really wanting to get rid of movies and TV too. We just got cable a month ago and it is JUNK. I hate the things my kids are exposed to. I even want to cancel my Netflix. Last night we were watching a movie and the littlest one was down with us (he's 3). A woman started taking off her clothes to go swimming (in a bikini) and Gabe goes, "Oooohhhh" like he was mesmerized with her beauty. I was upset and questioned if we are training our children to be porn addicts. Long ways to go, but will those small seeds trigger something?