Weeks 2 and 3

It has been a busy two weeks. Last weekend I worked out our homeschool convention for Tapestry of Grace. This was the second year I've done this and I love doing it. It is wonderful getting to talk to other parents about homeschooling in general and Tapestry of Grace specifically. The Somervilles (Marcia Somerville is the author of TOG) were speaking at the conference so our booth was quite busy.

So for part of our school week I was also preparing for the conference. My parents flew in to take care of the boys for us (THANK YOU!) and then both of my brothers flew in Sunday night to spend the week. That means for week 3 of school we have had my whole family here. As you can imagine my reports for these past two weeks have been a little bit delayed. However we have stayed firm...well sort of...we did all of our school work that was scheduled.........hello.. anyone there...... mmmm......

Week 2

Week 2 started off with our cat having to be put down on Monday morning. We all went to the vet to find out what was wrong with our beloved Venus. The vet was compassionate and made if very clear that there wasn't anything we could do for her. We had had Venus for 13 years. Honey and I got her a few months after we were married. We've never not had her during our married life. There were many tears shed and sad hearts so there wasn't school on Monday. I don't think we could have handled not seeing here laying on our school couch trying to climb on the boys books so she could lay down on the paper (she loved to lay on paper!).

Tuesday we started school:

Turkey Lips:
Bible Study for All Ages - Completed 2 lessons (divided into 4)
Memory Work - we added in our memory work this week. We are working on Bible verses, geography songs (reviewing states and then we will move on), Veritas Press History songs, and the Calendar for Turtle Toes
Math U See - 2 pages per day with multiplication facts review
Rod and Staff Grammar - right now we are doing 2 lessons a day
Handwriting - copywork and cursive

Turtle Toes:
Bible Study for All Ages
Memory Work
Math U See
Spell to Write and Read
Handwriting


Week 3

We were down to the very basics this week with all of my family here:

Turkey Lips
Bible Study for All Ages - Ok but not every day!
Math U See
Grammar

Turtle Toes
Dude he's in Kindergarten .... no school!!!!

Well I know I said it in my first post for this school year but I will be posting our schedule later and going into a little more detail for the goals for this year. This school year has started in a whirl wind. That whirl wind has included: homeschool conference, sewing for new baby, family visiting, vacation to CO and some bad attitudes....I'll let you guess whose attitude...shhh not mine :) However God has really been showing me that parenting involves grace too just like His parenting me involves ALOT of grace.

That is if for now. I promise I will be posting pictures once we have a normal week. Have a wonderful week.