fun in school

We have been having  a lot of fun in school lately. Here is Brendon Fishing with magnets. He is doing a magnet unit in science  right now.  I am so grateful for this time with my kids. They are a great bunch of guys.   Learning to just relax and enjoy our learnign time has made the world of differnce. As a homeshcooling mom you really are tied down a lot more but just like anything else the sooner you can accept that fact the better (=
Here is my new motto:
LOVE THEM, SUPPORT THEM, EXPECT THE MOST OF THEM, and EXPOSE THEM TO LOTS OF GOOD STORIES.

Handsome men

 Can you believe these two little kids are mine and Falesha's. I have known Falesha since I was 11. We have had a lot of fun adventures together. I am so glad that we have stayed best friends and are now enjoying raising kids together.

 This is  a rare rare shot of all my brothers and I. My youngest brother Gus on the computer is up at college in NIC. We have been having lots of fun skyping to keep in touch. My middle brother Ben has been in jail a few times but is out now so we thought we better take advantage of us "being together" even if Gus is on  a computer to get a group shot. It was so nice to all laugh and hang out. I look forward to really being together some day. Gosh the last time I can remember all of us together was going to lunch about 3 years ago.

Ben and I

 We went to Stevan's oldest brothers house last week for dinner. Here we are hanging out. We we're so close to a family photo but Wess was outside. We really have to get that done some day.

 The guys playing a serious game of football.

John and Brendon

Robert and Hayden making the plan

Wess after making a touch down

HUT HUT HIKE!

I'm open!!

They had a great time  Check out Brendon's face he cracks me up

Tables

The other day I was up at Eloise's my dear dear friend. We have a big gap in years between us but not between our hearts. She is one of my dearest friends. She is always full of energy and wisdom and is probably in better shape than I am. Anyway she is always thinking of us and she mentioned she had a table she wanted to know if I could use. It is beautiful and I was so excited to start re arranging the house and making things work better. Any one who knows me knows I love to rearrange and keep change in the house. I wanted to put a table in the school room for a while now. It just seems like we end up at the kitchen table a lot for projects. So I put our old Kitchen table in the school room and our new beautiful table in the kitchen and rearranged everything in there as well. I am loving it!! School seems to flow better. Last night I found all the boys reading and drawing at the school room table. I feel like I'm still working on getting a house that looks like an adult lives here, slowly but surely new pieces of furniture and getting rid of dumb clutter are helping the process along. Maybe by the time I'm like 80 or something I'll succeed . Here are some pics of the new arrangement.