Life Is Learning...

It's been over a month since I blogged, but it certainly hasn't been that long since anyone in our family learned anything!

My dad got out of the care center and came to live with us in late April. Life's priorities got turned upside down. It didn't make quite a 180 degree change in our house, but it was huge. I was able to be on the computer very little. We left the house seldom, because he wasn't able to be home alone. Hopefully my boys learned a little bit about how people and relationships come before schedules and appointments. My dad is back in the hospital now, so we are freer to go places, but there are certainly drawbacks again, not the least of which is the health concerns that precipitated him going back.

My in-laws were here for 4 days last week. It was also the weekend of the local homeschool convention. The time was okay with me; we were able to spend some time together, but not too much time.

I bought the next level of Math-U-See, even though we aren't ready for it yet. I'd rather buy it now and save shipping charges than wait until we are ready to start it. I also got a set of 4 audio books. They'll be good for in the car on our vacation later this month. And I got A Record of the Learning Lifestyle for record keeping of non-curriculum stuff. The author noticed my shirt (Life is Learning, Learning is Life, Everywhere, All the Time) and said that was her philosophy, too. We chatted for a while, and I decided that her record keeping book would be more useful than the menu planning board I was going to buy at a different booth.

Since yesterday was the beginning of a week and the beginning of a month, I decided to start our official First Grade year. DS1 is now a first grader. We started keeping track of things again yesterday, and we even read "school books" and did some MUS today. Now I just have to get around to becoming official with the state and registering. I told DS1 that he can help me and DH pick the name of our homeschool.