Busy, Busy, Busy

That just about sums up our life right now! We are in full swing with the new school so my Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays are very full of keeping 2 girls moving forward with their school assignments as they work from home on those days.  I'm slowly learning how to juggle helping both of them at once.  We are getting into a routine now.  And we've been able to take advantage of the flexible schedule a few times since we started this endeavor.  We've gotten up early, worked for awhile and then taken a few hour break to go consignment sale shopping and then it's back home to finish up school.  We've also finished early on Friday so the girls can have playdates with their friends that homeschool.  But the biggest advantage is NOT having homework to do in the evenings.  I am loving that!  Our quality of life in the evening is soooo much better! And they are learning so much.  Elisabeth is learning cursive and is starting to learn to do simple diagraming of sentences.  Ansley is doing much better in math this year and her confidence is growing.  She is doing lots of sentence diagraming/classification and is learning how to do a keyword outlines and then use them to give oral presentations and write summary paragraphs.  Not to mention they are both having the Bible woven into their history lessons.  They are learning alot and so am I!  It has been a very good decision for our family to pull them out of public school and put them in a different atmosphere.   Gotta run.......Elisabeth is done with her math test and I'm off to help them finish up their lessons for the day.  :-)

A Weekend in Charleston

This year to celebrate our "big" birthdays, Sheryl and I spent a girls only weekend in Charleston.  We stayed right downtown and we were able to walk to everything.  We took our time wandering through the stores and the market and then took a walk to The Battery and Battery Park.  It was nice to just do whatever whenever we wanted.  We could stop and sit for however long we wanted and talk if we wanted or just sit in the lovely peace and quiet and just people watch.  Everyone needs a weekend like that every now and then.  I think we should make it a yearly tradition......don't you Sheryl?  We had good shrimp and grits for dinner on Saturday night (YUM!).  We met up with a long time friend on Sunday and spent a few hours hanging out at the beach together.  Then she took us to a great restaurant (Taco Mamacita) on Sullivan's Island for lunch. It was delicious!  I just love the Isle of Palms, Sullivans Island, Folly Beach, etc, etc.  I could live anywhere down there!  I swear one day I'm going to retire there. I'm already working on my kids because I won't be able to live to far from them for very long.   I've told Elisabeth that if she really wants to be a dentist then the Medical College in Charleston is a great place to go to school.  And it's a great place to live too when she gets finished with school.  Ansley is already in on the deal because she loves Charleston and would love to live there.  I believe we're on our way!