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Wow, what a great run down of how things are going. I feel the same way!!! Actually your message is great timing for me to read. I live in Australia, and we about to start school over here after a 2 month summer break. My husband is a teacher too, so he has been around all summer. I am starting to g...

I don't really have a suggestion, although I do have friends who like the series "Jotham's Journey, Bartholomew's Passage, Tabitha's Travels - the Advent trilogy that helped families find Christmas again" I have not read them myself, but there are reviews on Amazon. I was wondering, while we are on ...

Thanks for sharing the pictures of your precious little girl. I will be praying for you as you go through your pregnancy. Praise God for this little blessing!!!!!

Hi I soooooo agree, life has been wonderful for us using HOD. It is so great to hear how well it is going for you too :D I feel like we have just been so blessed by God, and almost everyday I am amazed at how wonderfully the program all fits together, Carrie is So clever!!!!. I find it hard to belie...

"Isn't it funny how we look at things and wonder if it is too silly and they just love it. My six year old loves the Rhymes in motion I think if possible even more than my 4 year old. I can barely get them to stop, they keep asking for a repeat of it. There is a lot of learning in plain old fun som...

Hey
Yep i am totally hooked..I must confess!!!!

It is sort of like you all become friends, I just love seeing what everyone is up to

Love Deb

[quote="MamaMary"]What I realized was that more was not better. It just crowded lots of information. I don't want to Fill A Bucket, I want to Light A Fire so that my children are lifetime learners. My 17 year old now works through rhetoric, math. logic and literature. He is far more intellectual tha...

P.S Gee I hope the pink font wasn't a bit over the top, it just looked like such a nice fun colour to try

Hi I am also homeschooling for the first time, so don't have anything very wise to say. I just wanted to add, that when I see my children playing in the backyard really enjoying themselves, playing, discovering, pretending, my heart feels so much joy. They have plenty of time to learn the academics...

Thanks for sharing

Love Deb

These stories are so funny :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Thanks for starting the thread :D I have many stories I could share of my own :oops: By I have decided to share on of a friend of mine. In Australia when we register to homeschool, we have a person come out to our homes to see our programs, check ou...

Hey Julie
Guess what we must be going at almost the same pace, we did that science last week

How exciting to be REALLY sharing the jurney so closely with someone else

I will be really looking forward to you blog!!

Love Deb

So excited for you

I hope you have a great start

I love the last comment about the delivery guy, yes we almost knocked ours over when we received our boxes

Love Deb

Oh Heather, I really feel for you. It is so hard when you have a couple of "those" weeks!! Please know you are not alone :) I wish I had some wise, profound words to give you that would make it all better, but most of the time I feel just like you do. I tend to pray lots and lots, every time I feel ...

What I try to remember, in regards to being "strange" is... according to whose definition? Are we (or our children) strange because we don't have the same (bad) morals as some of those in the world? Are we strange because we find it to be more important to memorize hymns and scripture than the nati...