Miriam (11)
The first day of school was awesome. It felt so good to be following a schedule again--even though there were glitches here and there. I'm still working on training the children in their new chores and helping kids stay on task. We didn't get to history, but that isn't very surprising. I figured we wouldn't do the extras until we got into the groove of things.
Today was nice too. Miriam went to the DaVinci Academy for her day of classes. I decided to give it a try with the new program but I'm definitely lukewarm. One foot in, the other foot out. I wanted a little homeschool $ and this was the last year for Miriam to take classes, so I put her in and kept the other kids out. We'll see if the money is worth the requirements.
Miriam loved her classes. The other kids and I lost focus around 10:30 because the weather was so nice. We headed to the hills for a nice ambling walk on the canal road. We might have to stick to paved trails though because carrying Oskar when he got tired was not fun. A stroller might help me get to the end of this pregnancy. Still, lovely day.
My favorite things that have happened over the past two days: Cowen and Emeline figuring out how to alphabetize and Cowen sitting by Harriet on the couch helping her go over her touch-and-trace alphabet cards. Harriet wants so much to "do school" and Cowen was so sweet with her. Loved it.
Funniest thing? Emeline was trying to find a word in the dictionary for her language arts assignment and kept singing the alphabet song through the letter "o" over and over. None of us were paying attention until she muttered, "I have got to learn the alphabet." Then we realized she couldn't remember the rest of the alphabet and we erupted in a massive fit of giggles. Emeline looked sheepish but appreciated her siblings singing the song repeatedly for her until she found the word in the dictionary.
Good times.
I'll leave you with another pic of Oskar--guaranteed to make you smile.
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