I really am still here! Just quiet in blog land as I’ve been working on lots of school prep here as well as other projects that need to be done before school starts. We also got away for a much enjoyed camping trip last weekend.
Hopefully if time permits I’ll be pecking away at the keyboard again soon. 9
Summer is quickly coming to an end. For us homeschoolers that means time to plan and prepare for our upcoming school year. I’m a bit overwhelmed this year as normally I am done with this by now, but this year that is not the case. With just 4 weeks left until school starts I am scampering to wrap this up.
I’ll have 7 students this year. This is the most I will probably ever have at a time. (whew!!) I’ll have two highschoolers as Shayden will be in 9th, (How did that happen?) one jr high, and four elementary.
For my high schoolers and jr higher I’m trying something new called Homeschool Tracker. Its taking some work right now to input everything for an entire year but when I don’t have to think twice about lesson plans the rest of the year it will be worth it. It’s not necessary to create lesson plans for the whole school year but I’ve done this for the last several years and found that the amount of work I put into it over the summer pays off when I don’t have to worry about it during the busyness of the school year. Come December I also plan on cuddling a new little one and the last thing I’ll want to think about is lesson plans!
For my younger students I’m still using my binder system. We’ve been doing this for a few years and I love it. It has taken away the dread I used to feel on Sunday nights as I prepared for our new week of school. Now all I do it grab the folder for the month of work they are doing and load binders! Viola!
Hopefully I can get this all completed in the next couple of weeks so I can spend the last week before school starts relaxing with my kiddos! 
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1231. Sizzle chickens
1233. Baby chicks
1235. Cuddle bugs in my bed
1237. Awesome super hero Daddy’s
1239. Winning prizes at the fairI can’t believe how this pregnancy it moving along so fast! I am trying to savor every minute of it. Today we had our second midwife appointment. She came to our home this time so the kiddos were able to hear the heartbeat too. My little girlies were thrilled! I can’t believe in two weeks I will be able to say we are half way to meeting this little one! +
Every 4 – 6 months we rebid chores and make changes to how things are run around here. The last few days we’ve come up with a new dish washing routine and also made changes to our regular chore chart. Shelbie bumped back onto the chore list since she will be home for a while and little Shylie made it to the big leagues and has her name on the chart now!
I’m sure I’m probably the minority here on how excited I get when we redo chores! \
