We are halfway through our third week of the new school year. The first two weeks we all felt like we were barely hanging on by our fingernails. But I think this week we have begun to feel like we are settling into a routine.
Four kids....four routines....four learners....four little disciples. A full plate for sure.
Kimberly returned to College Pathways for her eighth grade year. She goes two mornings a week and does a great deal of work at home. (And I mean a. lot. of. work.) It is a great program and she enjoys her friends and teachers a lot. Add in a little babysitting, a little piano and she is a busy girl.
Caleb and Josiah do most of their work at home with me, but they go one day a week to an enrichment program. They are in fifth and fourth grades. Yesterday was their first day and they really enjoyed it. They will do some science, history, drama, art, P.E. and (their favorite) recess and lunch. It is really a blessing to live in an area that offers so many options to homeschoolers. This program is through the school district and is completely free to us. They have several neat projects and field trips planned. We also are able to access Rosetta Stone in the language of our choice through this program. (Ni Hao!) They are close in age and just a grade apart in school, so it is fun to do many of our subjects together.
Moriah goes four afternoons a week to a blended preschool at our local public school. Her class is comprised of five special needs kids and ten non-special needs kids. Honestly, I have no idea which kids are which. But Moriah is able to go due to her hearing loss. She gets some speech there each week. She has really blossomed this year and is talking a lot about the other kids and all that she is learning. Yesterday she shared that a friend "got sick on the table." Oh my. God bless those teachers.
Meanwhile, the laundry is a like beads on a string without a knot on the end. And the house....well, it has that "lived in look," but that's how we like it! It means that we're all here together (at least some of the time) learning and growing and living.
Andy just finished his tenth (yes 10th!) trip to Qatar. He has one more to go and then he is on to different adventures (trips to Hawaii and possibly Australia). We marvel at God's faithfulness to us this year with all of his travel. But we are definitely looking forward to having him home more. And he is sure he will not miss the 28 hour travel days that he has endured. Frequent flyer miles are nice, but that is just a long time to be on a plane no matter how you look at it!
We are thinking a lot about what it will mean to add two more to this mix, but we trust that God will give us wisdom and directions or each step of the journey.
Since I have been a failure at getting a picture of the kids on their "first day of school" I will include some random recent photos of all of four.
Four kids....four routines....four learners....four little disciples. A full plate for sure.
Kimberly returned to College Pathways for her eighth grade year. She goes two mornings a week and does a great deal of work at home. (And I mean a. lot. of. work.) It is a great program and she enjoys her friends and teachers a lot. Add in a little babysitting, a little piano and she is a busy girl.
Caleb and Josiah do most of their work at home with me, but they go one day a week to an enrichment program. They are in fifth and fourth grades. Yesterday was their first day and they really enjoyed it. They will do some science, history, drama, art, P.E. and (their favorite) recess and lunch. It is really a blessing to live in an area that offers so many options to homeschoolers. This program is through the school district and is completely free to us. They have several neat projects and field trips planned. We also are able to access Rosetta Stone in the language of our choice through this program. (Ni Hao!) They are close in age and just a grade apart in school, so it is fun to do many of our subjects together.
Moriah goes four afternoons a week to a blended preschool at our local public school. Her class is comprised of five special needs kids and ten non-special needs kids. Honestly, I have no idea which kids are which. But Moriah is able to go due to her hearing loss. She gets some speech there each week. She has really blossomed this year and is talking a lot about the other kids and all that she is learning. Yesterday she shared that a friend "got sick on the table." Oh my. God bless those teachers.
Meanwhile, the laundry is a like beads on a string without a knot on the end. And the house....well, it has that "lived in look," but that's how we like it! It means that we're all here together (at least some of the time) learning and growing and living.
Andy just finished his tenth (yes 10th!) trip to Qatar. He has one more to go and then he is on to different adventures (trips to Hawaii and possibly Australia). We marvel at God's faithfulness to us this year with all of his travel. But we are definitely looking forward to having him home more. And he is sure he will not miss the 28 hour travel days that he has endured. Frequent flyer miles are nice, but that is just a long time to be on a plane no matter how you look at it!
We are thinking a lot about what it will mean to add two more to this mix, but we trust that God will give us wisdom and directions or each step of the journey.
Since I have been a failure at getting a picture of the kids on their "first day of school" I will include some random recent photos of all of four.
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| Josiah and his quarter creation |
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| Caleb and his giant pickle at camp this summer |
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| Moriah loved the tea party on the lawn that Kimberly made for her. |
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| Kimberly went to Breckenridge with her cousin's family and grandparents this summer. What a treat! |
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