And just like that we are beginning another school year as a family. Time is going by so quickly! We are excited for this upcoming year. – our seventh year homeschooling! 2023 – 2024 <– (that is totally bizarre that this is the year we are going into!) here we go! Jacob – Sixth Grade …
Benjamin completed The Good and the Beautiful’s Kindergarten Prep course at the end of March. He was so very happy to do this course. He had done the Preschool course twice and so moving forward was really good for him! Previous Experience Both Jacob and Sarah did the previous version from The Good and the …
We finally got this boy into a sport – BASEBALL! It was so fun to watch Ben get into something new. Sadly, his first season was interesting. He had his first practice and then it was practice after practice after game after game of cancellations. The weather this spring was absolutely bonkers! We had thunderstorms …
Benjamin appreciation post! This little man. There is a whole lot of personality in this little body! Ben continues to be the most physical human being I have ever been around. He needs to be physically active – this boy loves to use his body – and his love language is definitely physical touch. If …
We have had the most wonderful spring. It has been cool and rainy and oh so pleasant {except the mosquitos!}. Mark has been wanting to take the kiddos to a Colorado Rockies game ever since we moved and he was finally able to this month. We’ve had afternoon thunderstorms nearly every day, but they had …
Thoughts this Winter Was it just me or did this winter FLY by?! I think it probably was just me. I know this winter was brutal for a lot of people weather wise – but it was pretty good to us academically! I felt like we finally got into our groove after months and months …
I have heard of the Explode the Code series for as long as we’ve been homeschooling. But for us, I never really saw a place for it. HOWEVER, that changed this last year. When Ben was having a difficult time learning his A, B, C’s, I really did not know what to do. I tried …
Benjamin finished the Preschool course from The Good and the Beautiful in January and it was an extremely happy day! School has not come easy for Mr. Ben and he ended up doing this course twice. Letters were just not clicking for him – BUT I have spent a lot of time researching preschool curriculums …
This boy. I love him so much. He is funny, adventurous, so snuggly, works hard, determined, is very sweaty, athletic, loves people, and creative. I was so happy to celebrate him! Benjamin’s 6th birthday was the birthday that just kept on giving! On the day of his birthday, he and Lydia were still dealing with …
On Thanksgiving day, Lydia started to come down with a fever. Lydia gets a LOT of fevers. Sadly, she seems to pick up on anything and everything going around. Well, do you want to know what was going around viciously the end of November? RSV. Lydia’s fever remained day after day. She also had a …