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.  :-)