Homeschool it is....

Things have been so crazy around here!  I am excited to get started on our homeschool plan!  We are doing some easy classes this summer and will hit a full load come fall.  The plan is to school year around and then we can take time off when ever the mood moves us to hit the road!

I have spent so many hours researching curriculum!  Decided on Math, Grammer and Science.  Still looking at Literature, History and health...not sure what I might be missing.

We are doing a unit study this summer on the Sound of Music.  We can talk about the music and the parts of the story of course but we can also look into the geography...Sky had no idea the location of Austria...the history of the time...early WWII...and we are going to research food of the area and create a menu.  Then we can also look at what happened to the family after the film.  just a way to get my feet wet on creating a unit study, which I am not planning on doing all our learning around that style.

Keeping fingers crossed that things work out. 

fundraiser time

if any of you are interested in buying from Brady for their fundraiser let me know...

You can go to www.sigfund.com and check things out.  If you want to order I can give you the info to be sure Brady gets credit.  Sale ends March 8th.

school stuggles

As most know getting Sky to do his homework has been a HUGE fight on a daily basis.  During Christmas break he spent lots of time catching up on all the assignments he chose to put off but it paid off!  For term 2 he got an A in Band (of course) and  Bs in everything else.  Which is amazing because during the holiday I got a letter from his math teacher tell me he was failing math.  I had to get tough and he went into see his teacher a couple days after school and brought his grade clear up to a B.  That tells me he knows what he is doing and it is all because he is lazy. 

He feels homework is totally unfair.  Too bad!  Time to get over it Sky!

Brady's moment...

Brady does not like to be singled out.  He gets so embarrassed but today he got 2 awards at the assembly.  First was a star of the month for Cooperation award from his reading teacher for always helping his neighbors in class.  Then he got a Principals Award that states:  Brayden is constantly helping out his classmates in subtle ways and never does it for recognition.  He pushes in chairs, turns off light and picks up after other always being a humble helper. 

He was called in front of the whole school and was looking very uncomfortable with the applause...

first award he grabbed and ran was gone before I could even get the pic!

At least the second time he had to stand there a little longer so I could get a photo!!! 

People are always telling me how wonderful my boys are at school, I just wish they shared some of that part of their personalities with mom and dad.

Criminal caught...

I went to take the boys to school and for the 2nd time I found damage to my van.

Last time it was the lower part of the LeBra left in shreds today it was the part that covered the hood.  I have had these on other vehicles for almost 10 years with nothing like this happening!

So we now have security cameras on our property so I asked Shane to check the video and see if it was damaged when I came home last night from the middle school.  What we found was that at 8:30 pm Romeo started jumping up on my van ripping the bra to shreds!  He had it half off then went to the deck and sat watching the van for a few minutes then ran back down and tore it the rest of the way off.  Unfortunately the van was parked just so we could only see the front of the vehicle so I do not know if there was a cat sitting on the roof or something that set him off.

China hutch

I think I have the china hutch set up so it looks wonderful...

I am so excited!  We are going to be using the good china more often now that I have it all right here!!!!

Sky's solo

My friend send me a pic she took of Sky playing his solo

Yes, that is Sky wearing something other than sweats and a t-shirt!  He hates it and he has it off before we even get home but he looks so nice.