Daily Chalkboard

 

I love this little picture and sentiment that Natalie wrote on the board yesterday.

So cute! 

I love how she spelled Halloween. She didn't know how to spell it but she tried! 

I personally think that it was a brilliant effort. 

Love my little candy girl. 

:) 

First Day of School

Our welcoming chalkboard

A few changes for this school year...

Miss Diligent and Mr. Up-to-No Good - yup, that's about right!

First official piano lessons - Daddy is their teacher ;)

Reading time outside today - it was too beautiful to stay inside! Another benefit to homeschooling - we can have     school wherever we want!

Absolutely...every.single.one.

Candy for "Good Behavior" - they definitely deserved it today!

Ended our day on a great note at one of our local parks - shot some hoops with Nick, pushed Nat and Noah on the swings and even got some time to myself under a pretty shade tree with a good book - this is the life!

 And that sums up our day in photos...hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.

Excellent first day...praying we're blessed with an even better week ahead.

Wishing you the best as well! 

XO

It's Back to School Week...

My mission for this week is as follows:

Source: teacherfeature.tumblr.com via leahj on Pinterest

:) 

This weekend is consisting of operating in over-drive mode to get my house back in order and our school room prepped for tomorrow's first day back to school. 

I have high hopes! Prayers welcome! 

Desperately Seeking Regroupification (a word, no?)

I'm seriously starting to wonder if I will ever feel like we are all put back together again. 

Since we began our kids room re-do a couple of months ago, our life has literally been in shambles. 

Contents of our entire upstairs is scattered all over our dining room table and litters part of our living room as well.

Meanwhile, life presses on. 

School starts on Monday which means that my life HAS to be PERFECT before then. 

Or at least according to my new schedule it needs to be. 

Laundry needs to be done and put away...

House needs to be tidied, vacuumed, dusted...

School room needs to be cleaned, organized and new school supplies purchased...

Schedule needs to be nailed down, dolled up and printed out...

Ideally, I'll be all decorated for fall by then...

Oh and my yard...flower beds weeded and grass cut please! 

Tad bit tired of being a mess this summer. 

I'm ready to regroup. 

So why do I look at this list and the first thing I wanna do is take a nap 'til next summer?

((sigh))

Overwhelmed, party of me.

P.S. I do plan on posting all the fun details of our kiddos room remodel so be on the lookout for that...just need to scrounge up some more energy for writing! 

I think a pumpkin spice latte is on the horizon for me this week...

It's Official...

...we're homeschooling again for the 2012-2013 school year. 

This thought makes me excited, nervous, peaceful and petrified all at one time.

; )

For those of you who know our family personally, you may know that we homeschooled last year.

For those of you who REALLY know our family personally, you may also know that the year was somewhat of a nightmare.

True story.

Due to some circumstances that were out of our control as well as some circumstances that weren't, the year that started out like a dream did a 180 fairly early on in the school year.

Homeschooling was MUCH more challenging than we had originally thought.

And honestly, at times, I think that we must be smokin' crack if I think that we should attempt it again.

BUT...

Call us crazy...

We're gonna do it. Again.

Only this time...

We are not going to allow outside drama and distractions to affect our family life and the inner-workings of how our home is being run (unfortunately, we really learned this the hard way).

Also, we are going to plan...plan...plan...schedule...schedule...schedule...and most importantly have a realistic approach to homeschool and how it applies to OUR family.

So...yeah...(deep breath)...this is it. It's okay if you think we're nuts.

:)