For better or worse, the schoolroom says so. And I guess it's really more of a school "area" than a room since this is set up in a long room that has this on one end, the dining room on the other end and a play area in the middle. On the right side of the room is my desk - barely (you can see my chair which is all the way under the desk). On the left side of the picture you can just barely see the entrance to the living room. In case you were comparing this picture to the picture from the last post, yes, they are different rooms. After Philip deployed the kids and I were able to move into base housing so it's a new house for us! Smaller, but just about perfect in size as far as I'm concerned. And back to the schoolroom - it's been very conducive to schooling, as well. More so than the last house which was bigger over all. We do a lot of work together (with all four kids around) with me reading and asking questions. In this house, I can sit comfortably in the living room to read to the kids and they can either sit in the living room with me or sit right near by at the school table and color and still be able to hear just as easily. I like it!
Two days in with lots of new curriculum changes from last year, and so far it seems to be better choices. We'll see as time goes on. We are still in the transition stage from summer to school, though I have to say that our summer was really a non-summer. It's been a crazy summer. And no, I don't plan to go into to details, but suffice it to say that it finally settled down and began to feel like summer with lazy days, beach days, pool days, playground days, picnics, whatever, about August 1, which was supposed to be my start date for school. I could not do it. The kids and I needed at least a couple weeks to play summer. It was only two weeks, but it was fun!
So far schoolwork is finishing a little later in the day than I had planned which makes for a couple busy days, but our day this year is much more liberally spaced out with playtimes and snack time for the kids. And a couple subjects are taking longer than I planned because we get in to some great conversations based off what we are studying. I can't tell you how God has worked out our curriculum - half of which is completely unrelated to any of the rest - and it overlaps so well! For example, we talked about God being spirit, and us being created with spirits in Bible this morning (which was a fun conversation!) and then spirits comes up in history and another subject (can't remember which one) later in the day. Lots of good questions being brought up by the kids, which leads to good conversations - both of which rarely happened last year.
We started Mikayla in ballet and the boys in karate (thankfully the same class), so our weeks are busy, but they are so enjoying their classes! I think it's really good for Mikayla to be doing something completely her own, too. So often, being just 15 months younger than Aiden, they end up being together - which they absolutely love, but still, she's her own person. And for Tristan to actually get to do something with Aiden, who is almost exactly 3 years older than him (and at 4 and 7 that's a huge gap) is so special and exciting for him. He often gets left behind the older two, yet he so wants to hang out with them!
Life is good. God is great!
Hopefully it won't be nearly four months before the next post.
And now, I am going to bed.
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