Where Did Summer Go?

Can you believe that summer is over? I'm having a hard time getting back into routine! I can only imagine it's hard for my girls too! 

We had a great summer! We visited Rolling Hills Zoo & Museum  & played at the NEW park in town! We celebrated D-Bugs birthday in June & K-Dogs birthday in August!

We watched as our chicks that hatched this spring grew & are now running around terrorizing the bugs in the yard! We became "goat herders", as we purchased 4 dairy goats! 

Bandit, our buck (top) & Bandit, our weather

Liberty & Ariel, the ladies 

We should have babies come the new year! I will start milking a couple weeks after the babies are born! My plan, as of now, is to milk in the morning, allowing the babies to nurse all day. I know I won't get as much milk as I would if I would bottle feed the babies, but for this year, this is the plan. :)

We co-held a garage sale & sold MOST of the baby items we had stored in the basement! YAY!!! Only a few more items to go & the basement will be cleared of baby stuff! We are so looking forward to moving the playroom downstairs & the girls having their own rooms again! K-Dog & D-Bug are ready to have their own space, although they say they don't, all I hear is "mom she's in my bubble"! Oh the drama of being a little girl! 

With summer coming to a close, we started our new school year last week! New curriculum & new grades! We are using A Beka Academy this year & with one week down & only a couple more days to go in this week, we are LOVING it!!! 

K-Dog loves that she gets to watch the tv for her lessons (as the tv is rarely on unless the computer is hooked up to it) instead of listening to "boring ol mom". Of course there is lots of "one on one" learning with just me & her, which she is doing so much better with this year than last. I think that has a lot to do with not having to listen to me all day long, she's very stubborn strong willed & I love her anyways!

D-Bug is having a blast learning to write in cursive! So far just i's & u's, but she loves it & she is so excited when she gets a sticker for making a great letter! I hear her singing the songs she's learned & counting & saying the sounds of letters, so I know she's enjoying herself too!

Me, well, I love that it's super easy for the girls to follow & SO EASY for me to understand! They have lesson plans written out for every day, no me trying to figure out what we're gonna do that day, it's all there in black & white!!! AMAZING!!!

So far we have only had one day that lasted until 5pm, other wise we are done with schooling by 2/3pm most days! This gives us lots of time to have fun & get things done around the house! 

The girls have even learned to do their own laundry!!! At ages 5 & 7yrs, this is wonderful!!! I help them take their baskets down the stairs & I put in the detergent, but the girls put all the clothes in & push the buttons & when ready switch them over to the dryer, then take them out & hang & put them away! So nice not having to do their laundry on top of mine & DH's.

Well off to finish up supper before DH gets home & we head to church tonight!

Hope there are many New Beginnings in your life this year,
In Christ Love,
MommaSie

Sweet Potato Project

K-dog started a science project growing a sweet potato vine from a whole sweet potato. We thought it would be fun to allow y'all to join in on the project! The following is what she has discovered during the project.

On February 16th, 2013 she placed the sweet potato in a mason jar full of water. She then had me place it in a south facing window so it would receive sunlight throughout the day!

On March 12 the first root was seen!

On March 26th the first vine bud formed
(Vine bud can be seen just to the left of the toothpick & above the lip of the jar)

On April 9th we can see the vine buds have grown & the roots have continued to grow.

Please check back for more reports on the sweet potato project.

Thank you,
K-Dog & Momma Sie

2012 Looking forward

As we begin 2012 my mind is full of wild & crazy thoughts of how to make our lives better for my children. K-Dog (5) started Kindergarten in August 2011, she has had a rough go & actually dislikes going to school. She asked many times over Christmas break if she could stay home & not have to go back to school where the kids are mean to her. So as I sit here today, on this mild January day, I have been researching homeschooling the girls.
I researched this once before & when I talked to family & friends about it, everyone said they didn't think I could do it. Now that I am reading more & talking to other moms I even have more faith in myself than I did before. Hubby is also behind me with homeschooling & we are looking into finding a KJV Bible based curriculum to teach the girls with.
I am very excited & I can hardly wait for this school year to end so we can start homeschooling this fall!!!
We will allow D-Bug to finish her preschool, as the preschool is Christian based & she does need to learn to NOT be so attached to mom. She will start Kindergarten at home the fall of 2013.
K-Dog will most-likely finish Kindergarten at the public school & start homeschooling with 1st grade.
We have found KJV Bible based curriculum that we think we will be using & we are very excited about this!
There will hopefully be many more post as I begin my "Blogging" into the world of homeschooling!
Praying for God's wisdom to show us the path to take.

~♥~ Momma Sie