Things I'll miss about the city cottage

 I'll miss the grassy field in the back of the houses that meets up to the highway.  I can see the cars, but the trees keep me hidden.  I'll miss walks on these nice, flat, paved roads with tiny cottage houses with charm and character.  I'll miss a house taking 20 minutes to clean.  I'll miss no stairs. 

  What I won't miss: My oldest not having any privacy or his own room

 the one bathroom

the electronics becuase there isn't much room to do anything else inside

the winter.  That cold, dark, wet, muddy, lonely winter.  May it never happen again. 

 

  I am loving the time change.  I do not care if we lost an hour- we gained an hour of daylight and walked one step further away from our vampiric existence. 

  We have almost overstayed our free rent trial here at my Aunts, and the market shows no signs of slowing down.   Trusting in God is definitely something I have not mastered.  

 I dream of a little house with a wrap-around-front porch- or just a front porch, my oldest having his own room, (finally at 18), flat land around the immediate property with some woods in the back, an already-made chicken coop, and workshops or barns for my husband's equipment. 

 I dream of our marriage being healed.  I dream of peace.  

"Delight in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart."   This verse is so true, in that, we often have desires that differ from God's plans, and when He is our priority, our desires tend to be fulfilled. 

If you also have a student that will graduate late because of late development- I wonder, how will you cram it all in? And, what if you have a learner that can't cram?? Well, it seems these are the subjects we have to squeeze into another year (yes, summer school will have to happen)

 Algebra II Geometry Statistics Spanish English lit (and finishing up classics like: (A work by Dickens, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and one more apologetic book) US Government Totally doable, I guess. At this juncture, however, it seems totally overwhelming. So, here is what we are doing this year : 

History: younger kids: Story of the World, Child's History of the World, History Pockets

Language arts: Older kids: Sonlight, Story of the World younger kids: First Language Lessons Highschool: Some Easy Peasy English Lit, Introduction to Poetry

Writing: Younger kids: Writing With Ease Older: Narration, Dictation and Copywork given through Sonlight and Story of the World

  Math: Everyone (Shocker) Math U See Thank you to the homeschool mom who said pick a math and STICK WITH IT 

Reading: Everyone: Sonlight

Science Biology (A sonlight book) Apologia, Human Anatomy Big Fat Book of Science (co-op class) Sonlight: intro to Biology, Chemistry, and Physics With our electives of: Spanish (Duo-Lingo and class with our neighbor), Fallacy Detective for Logic, Total Health (Apologia), Economics (Whatever Happened to Penny Candy), Typing (Typing Club) With a little Easy Peasy Language arts thrown in... My favorite thing this year is again going through Story of the World and a Child's History of the World and doing History Pockets with my younger kids.

 By far, my favorite time of homeschooling is when we go through Story of the World and History Pockets.  How I regret not buying the student workbook pages to go with Story of the World the last time I did this history with my older kids.  I love the corresponding literature suggestions. I love learning Geography through history.  I love the reiteration through narration and dictation.  I love it all. 

 History Pockets was such an added treasure.  All the projects your kids can do; Mesopotamian puppets, making a popup ziggurat-  I wish I had learned this way as a kid.