New Year New School

Someone asked me what my New Years Resolution was shortly after the start of the new year. My reply (and I was totally serious) was to have a completely BORING and UNEVENTFUL year. No pregnancies or new babies, no new house, no moving, nothing eventful at all. I just wanted to be BORED out of my mind by the end of the year.

Well God, with His sense of humor, decided to give me just the opposite. One week later, Jeffrey and Jonny were accepted into a new school. So what, you may ask. Well this is no ordinary school... in fact nothing about it is ordinary. It is half school and half home school. So I have Jeffrey and Jonny home MUCH more (which I LOVE LOVE LOVE). It is a bit of a drive from here, so I spend about an hour a day driving to and from schools. They teach math differently, writing differently, spelling way differently, etc. And we LOVE all of it. Jeffrey and Jonny are doing really well adjusting, and I am "surviving!" Let's just say, I have three hours a day to get the food ready, run errands, and clean the house before I dedicate myself 100% to my kids educations. Luckily, the longer we are at this school the less help they will need (at least that is what is supposed to happen). As for now, I am enjoying being so involved in their education, seeing so much more of them, and learning a bit for myself too. I am also excited that Ben will join them next year when he is in 1st grade.

So I guess I will have to look forward to a boring year another time! But for now I Say BRING ON 2012.

Ok, so totally not related... here is Katie sitting up! She wants to be part of the action so she learned to sit and loves it. She also loves jumping in her jumper and putting EVERYTHING into her mouth! We love having her in our family! And you just have to laugh at how she curls her tongue. She does that ALL THE TIME.