Many Blessings

Today I am posting about something other than school. I just want to say how thankful I am to be surrounded with the friends that God has blessed me with. I know that His timing is everything and I was reminded yesterday how He puts people in our path for a reason. My daughter FJ was diagnosed with Celiac disease in January. She has to be on a strict gluten-free diet. On the surface that doesn't sound so hard, but when you get into all the foods, ingredients, additives, and contamination issues it's a little harder than it sounds. Not to mention expensive if you would like you child to have pancakes, muffins, bread, cake, cookies, cereal bars, donuts, pastas, etc... Anyway, a dear friend mentioned yesterday that I was lucky to have another friend (who moved here only a few months ago) living nearby who follows this diet faithfully. She has been very helpful with shopping and recipes and food!! Not to mention a few other friends have contributed to our initial filling of our pantry with gluten free flours and goodies. I just wanted to say Thank you to all my dear friends.

What's been happening in 2009

It has been quite a while since I have posted anything. It has been rather busy around here since the first of the year. Between our car problems, doctors appointments and additional children in the house, I hardly have time to sit down and write. Anyway, an update to our schooling is due. I prepared a new schedule for the kids that we started working with at the beginning of the New Year following The Well-trained Mind model. It has been working very well and I am very proud of the work that each of the kids are doing. FJ is such an independent learner and is very good at researching information that is needed for her projects. Her writing abilities have soared this year and she even writes some of her own Poetry. JC is working independently on a lot of his work as well, which is quite a change from last year. He is showing quite a bit of maturity. JP is working very hard with reading, spelling, grammar and math. He loves to get his work done. I am still not using my camera like I should, but will try to remember so that I can post more pictures soon.