Monday morning

Well here we are, the weekend is over and it is Monday. Normally I would be getting the boys up for breakfast and getting ready for our day of school. But this morning they are sleeping in a little extra time and will do school in the morning and get the afternoon off as their dad will have the afternoon off today. Brandon will go to his speech class this afternoon for 2 hours though.
It is nice to sit here at the computer with utter quietness. Have a litle computer time and then have my time in my Bible with the Lord. Don't have too many days like this. As I type I am listening to the rain fall outside. Wishing we would have sunshine instead of rain but thankful to the Lord for the day he has given us anyway.

I have been thinking all weekend about composition. We use various things for composition and I am growing weary of planning so many different curriculums for this subject. I would like to get SWI C for the boys but can't afford to get it new right now and of course can't find it used on the boards. So what do we do..who knows maybe this afternoon I will get time to sit down and look at everything I have for compostion and figure out how to make just one of them do what I want.
Well that is all for now!! Hope everyone has a wonderful Columbus Day!!

I figured it out and now the slides are gone!
Gloria

I goofed

I was trying to figure out how to add my pictures as a slideshow and somehow I got 3 slideshows on my blog and none of them my pictures and now I can't figure out how to get rid of them.
Oh well, at least they are nice to look at even if they aren't what I intended to put on there.
gloria

WOW!!

I really have neglected this blog. So let's get started with an update.
C is doing good with his studies what little he has. For B we decided not to do Tuthquest for history and are instead doing History Odyssey Modern TImes level 2. I was worried that it would not be enough for 10th grade but my worries were soon put to rest. It is more than adequate for 10th grade. He is enjoying it. Instead of LL for literature we are doing our own thing. I am roughly using WTM as a guide and adding in lots of books that he and I want to read. We have always done literature together by reading aloud and then discussing it. I was going to try LL this year but in the end we like our read aloud time so we ditched LL. B joined a Speech club and actually is enjoying it so far. C is trying to decide what he is going to major in next fall when he attends college. I have realized that 17 year old boys just take a laid back look on life at this age. I am one of those people who plans and plans and it is just driving me crazy that he is just not too worried about college right now. Oh well, my husband told me to just leave him alone and he will figure it out. So I am trying and most days do fine but occasionally slip. LOL

It has been raining and raining and then raining some more here off and on all summer which is very unusal as we usually have a drought in the Summer. As a matter of fact it is raining as I type. we went camping last weekend which was okay. We got rained on Sunday morning and decided to pack up and come home early. We were all exhausted so noone complained.

I am so glad it is Friday!!!!! I love the weekends when husband is home all day and we do a lot of family things then too.
Well gotta go start lunch....HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEKEND EVERYONE!!!!!

2009-2010 school year

WOW! Summer has flown by here and it is already to get ready for the new school year.
C will be a senior this year and B will be in the 10th grade. My BABIES are gorwing up WAY too FAST!!! But I can say that are becoming awesome men and my prayer is for their life to shine for the Lord each and every day.

This is what we will be using for this year
C--12th
Bible- reading the Bib le together and discussing it
Math-finish MUS Algebra and do consumer math
Government-various things I have put together
American Literature using Hewitt;s LL
Composition- will be writing various papers
English-review in his writing

B--10th
Bible-reading together and discussing
History-Truthquest AOR 1 with LOTS of reading,timeline work,map work and maybe some lapbooks thrown in for good measure
Science-Biology using Biology 101 DVD's with various things added in and labs of course
Geography-Trailguide to US Geography
Math-MUS ALgebra
English-review through his writing
American Literature using Hewitts LL
Compostion-Hewitts lL and IEW US History based writing lessons voulume 1
Art-Art appreciation that I put together
Spanish-not sure what we are using here yet
Introduction to computers-using my college course I took last year

So far these are definites. there are some other things that I am looking at and thinking about but have not quite made up my mind yet.

summer

Well summer is in full swing here! It is already hot and no end in sight until probably September or October. The boys are enjoying their summer. We have always done school year round but this year we decided to take the summer off. I hope I don't regret the decision once school starts back. for some reason I have gotten started watching re-runs of I Love Lucy on TV in the mornings. The boys will watch it with me if they are up(they tend to stay up to the wee hours of the morning playing on the xbox live). For the most part we are spending a quiet lazy summer.
We do however intend to do some bowling, swimming and movie going during the day when my husband is at work. We have also been doing some camping on the weekends.
We plan to go float the Buffalo River in July.
Well that is all for now!

looking through my RAinbow Resourse Catalog

Oh my gosh my RR catalog came at the end of last week and for the last 2 days I have been pouring through the pages. This is absolutely my favorite homeschool catalog of all time. I almost always order everything I need from them.

This week has been such a lazy week so far and I think that for the most part it will continue to be one. I will be continuing to look at the RR catalog and trying to finalize what I want to order for the boys for next year. C will be a senior and B will in the 10th grade. I have to get this all figured soon as I need to order by July.

The boys both got their driver's license on Friday!!! I am so glad we are all finished with all that. My oldest is looking for a truck now.
well that is all for now, gotta get back to that catalog!!LOL!