Major announcement time!! Hannah finished Algebra this week!   *cue applause*  As you can tell, she is very happy to be done!   She’s already working on her next math book, consumer math. Then she’ll head on into geometry. Hannah made cupcakes this week for Israel’s Independence Day. Of course, the rest of the kids…

When we have kids we think everything is going to be all sunshine, kittens, and rainbows. And most of the time it is. Then when we start homeschooling we think that the good times are going to continue. And most of the time they do. But sometimes, things happen beyond our control. Jobs are lost,…

This week has been spent preparing for graduation! Calen and Hannah will both be graduating. Graduation is scheduled for June 29th. They only want family at the actual graduation. Hannah wants a party, but Calen doesn’t. Trying to coordinate two graduates wants in one graduation is…..interesting. lol     Neither one of them wants to…

We still have the cold going through the house. sigh. As soon as one gets better, someone else gets sick. I am truly thankful that it is just a cold. It makes for long homeschool week, though, when the kids don’t feel good and don’t feel like working. The fact that Mama doesn’t feel good,…

My son does the sound at church, runs the microphones, etc. Here he is in front of the sound board last Friday night as they were getting ready for a tent revival behind the church. You can see the inside of the church in the back of the picture. Learning to run the sound board…

We are still on summer break. We did, however start out unit study of the United Kingdom. We also started an Olympics lapbook. I love using the Olympics for homeschooling. I have ever since we started homeschooling in 1991. So that means out first Olympics was 1992. We study countries, geography, sports science and all…