This is just a quick note to let everyone know we survived Spring Break. I enjoy having the kids around so much more than when they go back to school. Everything and everyone has been tired, cranky, busy and downright miserable since they returned.
Katherine got her braces two weeks ago. She refuses to smile for the camera, so sorry, I have been unable to catch her silver smile for you!
Megan started at Sylvan to help her thru some learning difficulties. After attending our Catholic Homeschool Conference this past weekend, it really helped me to understand her better and I can see where I've failed as a mom to adequately prepare her. All the educator things I've been opposed to in our homeschooling, I'm now finding out are necessary steps to increasing mental capacity and neuron connections! OOOOPPSS! We are taking steps to rectify that with all the kids this week. We are seeing some positive changes in just the past few days.
Rebecca has reclaimed her own room again. She is also excelling in the new brain games I bought and is very receptive to all the new "stuff" I've acquired. We've also committed to homeschooling her until high school. I'm so glad! I see what a huge difference in their maturity and esteem those three crucial years make. She's always been slower on the social side than Megan ever was and I don't think she could handle what Megan has already been thru in just the few short months she has been in school!
Stephen is loving his friends and still hating school. We've also committed to homeschooling him for a few years. We'll wait and see how he does before we make any judgements on middle school. It would be nice for him to get into band and 6th grade is when they start...we'll just see.
Lauren...my big headache. We are really working on discipline and obedience with that one. The iron will and stubbornness really are linked with that red hair (Stephen had red hair until he was about 18months old...that explains some of his too). She has a ballet recital coming in a few months!!!
Kimberly is learning tons and tons of stuff. She can pick out, from memory, some letters when I write them in a series of three letters. So far she has B, T, I, G, A and K down. I honestly was quite shocked at what she knew when I started this little alphabet game with her. I was schooling the kids and had just finished the instruction part of Lauren's grammar class when Kimmy climbed into my lap and wanted to write on the white board.
This beats cleaning corn starch off a kitchen floor! Those pics are being held hostage by my phone until I can figure out how to get them out :) Yes, she survived and no I didn't rip all my hair out and dissolve into a pile of tears...my mother's words rang in my head, "you have to learn to laugh about things or you will drive yourself insane!" "Take more pictures so you can show them to your friends in the old folks home when you're 90!"
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