Sorry I've been away....

I've neglected this blog for a bit. I'm sorry about that. It has been a very crazy few weeks. We were away for a weekend, had a sewer problem here at the house, my Husband was up for a promotion at work and did not get the position, 15 year old is rebelling against everything (I think if I said the sky is blue she would say NO....its red LOL!), I was on my way to my scrapbooking club and the tire blew on the car...uggggh! Then we found out we needed new brakes on the back of the car....not cheep. Honestly I had in the past few weeks lost the desire to homeschool. I battled with such guilt over this. That is when I just put all the workbooks away and we have done some fun stuff centered around autumn. I have really enjoyed it. I have worked in math, language arts and writing in these. It has been great because the kids do not even know they are doing these "boring" subjects. Why is it we sometimes feel the need to "conform" our children to the school's way of teaching???



So anyway, I'm hoping to get everything caught up tomorrow....I'll be all alone in the house in the morning....but I'm not promising anything. :-)



I'll leave you with this wonderful unit study from The Old School House magazine. You will find it on the side bar. I'm so excited to do this study. We have just finished the book Little House in the Big Woods and the final chapters are all about the harvest.