The Homeschool Mother's Journal

In my life this week:
I have managed to get the house in order!  It's not all dusted and vacuumed and perfect, but most of our "stuff" is where it belongs instead of being in little piles here and there all over the place.


In our homeschool this week:
My younger daughter (age 9) has been doing an online Spanish class for the last few weeks, and she and I both love it!!  The class is through the Homeschool Spanish Academy.  In fact, I'll be writing a review of our experiences with it this Monday, June 25.  I hope you'll be sure to come read it if you are interested in a great, live, online Spanish class!


Helpful homeschooling tips or advice to share:
Chill out!  I used to get all upset and uptight whenever everything on our schedule didn't get done.  It is very important to teach our children responsibility and a good work ethic.  That doesn't mean that I need to get upset when things don't go as planned, though.  (And it's only taken me13 years to learn that!!)


Places we're going and people we're seeing:
One of my favorite things about this summer is that we are purposely not going lots of places or doing lots of things!  We are occasionally going to the library or to visit a friend.  We aren't doing tennis, piano, ballet (except for 1 week--3 days--of ballet in July), speech & debate, etc.  It's been wonderful to be able to stay home nearly every day each week!


I'm reading:
I'm working on reading the Bible in 90 Days.  Some of the Hip Homeschool Moms team members decided that we wanted to read the Bible in 90 Days together.  We're not blogging about it on the site or making it an "official" session for folks to join.  We're just doing it together with our team.  We are only on our second day today.  I'm praying that it will go well for us.  Who knows?  Maybe next time we'll have an official session for folks to join with us.  :)


I'm cooking:
Actually, I've been doing less cooking, and I've been having my kids do more cooking!  My son (age 15) and my younger daughter (age 9) are each taking one night a week to cook dinner for the rest of the family.  It's been a great experience for them, and it has been really wonderful for me not to have to cook every single night.  This is (hopefully) going to be a regular occurrence in our home.


A photo to share:
My daughter (on the right) and a friend took turns last week giving each other a manicure.  The results were not the most beautiful, but they had lots of fun!

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