Nothing motivates like fallish weather; must be ingrained from my childhood; you know, all that scurrying, shopping for school supplies, & whatnot. For us, it's kinda weird, because we never stop having school, but still, come fall, things do become a little more urgent-like. I think this year I might buy everyone some school supplies, just for fun. I always loved that about back-to-school. Anyway, we still have a couple more weeks before we switch gears to start the new school year (& we're still finishing up the last four weeks of last year), nevertheless, I'm getting excited. I'll be using the same program for Hannah & Em that I used for Snow & Daniel at this stage, so as I'm reading through the booklists for this year, everything is familiar to me and I love it. Not only that, but we've been doing a chronological study of history and we have now come full circle, back to where we started, and will go trough it all again, building on what we've learned. That means Hannah & Em already have a foundation for everything we'll be covering this year. I feel so blessed that this has been my life, to keep my kids home with me, to learn together at our own pace, to watch my kids grow into their own personalities without the extreme influence of peer pressure and outside agendas. I'm not always so vocal about homeschooling, because I'm always afraid I might offend someone, but this is my heart on the matter. Right now, Hannah is drinking her orange juice with a glow straw in a "galaxy of shoes" (in the shoe closet). Let's face it, you just can't do that in traditional school, and even if you could, mom wouldn't be invited. The End.
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