Excitement in the Air!

Today was exciting for two of my grandchildren. They waited anxiously for their friends who moved away to Texas last winter, to arrive for a visit. All THREE kids were up and dressed before 9:00 AM and Ty's treatments were finished by 10:00. THAT, in itself borders on the miraculous! To continue on the miraculous thought, they also were extra careful not to mess up the clean house, and to clean up anything that Daddy discovered needed more attention! Wow! They were REALLY excited! I had to leave early for a doctor's appointment, and so did not get to welcome the anticipated guests. But I shall greet them warmly tomorrow!

I myself, have been having some excitement as well. The Homeschool Convention was in Phoenix this last weekend. Not only was reconnecting with friends rarely seen exciting, but we found some great ideas and curriculum also. I spent a good deal of today (both at their house AND at the doctor's office) perusing through said curriculum. And I have to say, I AM excited! We purchased 2 science programs, as Ty is quite into that topic. The Apologia program is suitable for all elementary grades. Though the teacher, (that would be ME), has to sort through what is appropriate at their own student's age, I think Ty will be delighted with it. I went through the entire book and planned (in pencil) which portions we would do and tenatively when. I did the same with the other science: Exploration Education. That is more physical science with hands-on craftsy sort of experiments. The other is zoology book one...flying creatures. (Even bats and dinosaurs!) Sounds cool to me!

I also read through the new reading program we bought. It is soooo cool and fun! It is called "Scaredy Cat REading System" and is the coolest way to teach phonics and spelling and words and grammar that I have ever seen! Ty needs to have media-centered work, which all of the above feature, and workbooks for focus time AND hands-on activities at least resembling crafts. These fit those needs very well.

I haven't gotten the math material yet. That is not my strength. Thank goodness, it IS my husband's forte. And Tyler finds math concepts easy to retain. Whew! But we have chosen the program and it sounds exciting as well. I also spent the rest of the weekend and this week putting together a social studies/history program and Bible lessons, all coordinating around special days and holidays and what the public schools are learning (the history part).

We got some fun curriculum for Caleb as well. He is getting a first writing program that teaches one to make the proper curves and lines in preparation for writing letters and numbers...all to music. But also, the music is to sounds...a little hard to explain, but it is wonderful...by the same company as the reading program. He will enjoy the beginning part of the reading as well.

Well, that is about all the excitement I can handle...oh yeah! The monsoons are still playing "guess when we're coming" here in my town. And the last one was Saturday night and ripped off the seal around our A/C unit and caused a leak in the vent system into the house! What excitement!...yes, we STILL have the old on-the-roof A/C system! Oh well. Thank God we have satillo tile and the water was confined to a small area.

NOW that IS all the excitement I can handle for today. I am sorry if I am not too funny today...I think I am just worn out with all the excitement!