A Fly On My Homeschool Wall

Illness is still coloring all of my days, so it's hard to be positive--even as I write, pink-eye has me blinking and struggling to keep self-control.  Nonetheless, good things happened, and I can say truly that God helped me through this week, strengthening me beyond what I was capable of on my own. Usually, when I upload pictures into Blogger,  they are automatically ordered by date in chronological order; however, this time they loaded in reverse chronological order, so this week's record will travel backward in time. We finished Understood Betsy on Saturday evening.  When I mentioned starting a new book, Baymax asked, "Will it at least make us laugh?" They laughed a lot at Betsy's adventures. This weekend, Pixie performed in her last Extravadance for a year.  She made the World/Footwork team, and even though the school didn't live stream the dress rehearsal (boo!),  I am 100% sure she was awesome! Friday The kids insisted on eating dinner by lantern light-...

Brother is doing much better.   Beowulf is doing much worse.   I'm sad.   I'm scared.   I'm full of questions.   Every day our babies come over, and every day I hold them and feel them fill my soul with peace . . . or at least bring me down from the ledge I feel I'm standing on.   Even though it's so much work, I think the babies are good for all of us.   Ladybug and Brother did 4 days of math lessons. Baymax did 5. Mister Man did 3. Brother did 1. Lola did 1 reading lesson.   Little Princess worked a lot on math and chemistry and calculated that she's "right on schedule" in language arts.   A chemistry experiment                     Photo credit:  Little Princess   Nature Angel is still working on Unit 2 of her language arts, but she's putting so much lovely work into it, that I cannot fault her.  Every day she puts her whole be...