Duggar Family

Did you happen to catch the new episode of the Duggar Family: http://www.duggarfamily.com/ I saw it last night amazing! I only have two children - My son who is 18 years old (a senior in public school) & my daughter who is 12 year old (6th grade homeschooled), Every time I watch that family I always think how do they feed that many children.... Our food bill is so high here (about $200.00 a week), My son can eat that up before the week is up too. The Duggar's say their food bill is $2,000.00 a month and they feed 17 children! I always love to see how they organize their food pantry and to do all that laundry - Yikes! They all seem very happy and what a beautiful house they have too.

Great "Blog" & Ideas....

Every morning I get on the computer and one of the first place I stop at is: http://homeschoolhome.blogspot.com/ I really enjoy her posts about homeschooling she has such great ideas..... One that she suggested to me which I have been checking out is: http://www.oklahomahomeschool.com/index.html It really looks like it might have some great ideas for Kelly & I. The "CheckList": http://www.oklahomahomeschool.com/checklist.html I think will really help us stay on target of what Kelly should be learning (Which is one thing that always worries me). Now I just need to find the money to buy it : )

Kelly's Nature Study

When It's Raining It's Pouring......

It has been raning here in Flagler County, Florida for what seems like days! You can see by the expression on Chance's face that things are not looking good for his pen..... The poor man is standing in water that is going over the tops of his hooves. I think we have gotten more rain this time then when we have hurricanes - Shhhh I shouldn't speak about the "H" word.

Oh, the joy's of living in FLORIDA!

When things get tough the tough get going.....

Kelly & I thought this looked funny so we took a picture of it.... Nothing like having your food looking back at you!

We are really running into a problem with all of the house painting work being dried up in our area.... My husband usually paints those new big beautiful multi million dollar homes on the beach or golf courses but even those have dried up.

It is a bit scary not knowing if things will pick up. What worries me most is that with no work around here no one can sell their homes.... Which is a double edged sword.
I just pray things improve & quickly - My husband only has about two more weeks of work and then nothing. YIKES!

Joy of Homeschooling......

Here is a picture of my daughter's turtle that she took - I think I have a photographer in the making : )

On the homeschooling front, I have read many posts about not jumping ship to quickly on the curriculum you are using BUT.... I think the short lesson CM style works great for Kelly but the jumping from one subject to another seems to leave her bewildered and again not remembering to much of what we went over. This drives me crazy! It just seems she is only able to take in the parts she finds interesting and the rest just floats away. My sister-in-law said my neice was the same way - Her doctor put her on a small doze of Ritilian (sp?). She said it really helped her settle down and concentrate better.... I would much rather just find a way to teach her without the use of drugs (My daughter will not even take an asprain when she has a headache). Being that she is already 12 years old, I feel very nervous about not getting what she will need for high school under her belt.

Oh, the Joy of Homeschooling!

Rough Start.....

Well it's only been a few days and we already have hit some bumps in our Homeschooling Adventure.....
Part of it is me - As I mentioned we are using Ambleside http://www.amblesideonline.org/index2.shtml I was thinking we would start with year 3 but then thought why not add year 4 things in too, It would just add some assortment to the day. Then after starting to read some of the books - We just don't like them! I am not sure if it's me and being used to regular textbook learning or what, but I can't stand how vage alot of the books are (Does that make sense?). I LOVE history and I just am not getting the feel for these books. Anyway, I am starting to jump ship with some of them and look for others to use.... Needless to say I am broke and have no more money to spend.
Kelly, She was all gun-ho the first few days then I made the mistake of using a morning to go out on our Nature Study - that seemed to have blown her school concentration and it has been sooooo hard getting her to buckle down to our regular schedule! Then to top it off my husband has no work so he has been home alot which just makes it to much harder - He has the tv on, or he is talking ect. On thurs. I was feeling so sick and had no energy to teach. Then Friday Kelly looked terrible and we didn't do much either. Kelly said to me though - Let's get back to school work mom, I have been too bored!
Okay!