Holiday Update

Okay, here are the new holiday/new year fun additions to our homeschool,

PE--a trampoline ( it still reaches 70 degrees in the afternoons here), boxing gloves and bag, and Bella Dancerella

MUSIC--a yamaha digital keyboard and usborne piano books (!)

ART--child-sized masterpieces

MISC--Lucky Ducks for Ugha (colors--too basic even for her, but cute), Domino Construction set for Scote, and the coolest roll-up jigsaw puzzle keeper and a box with ten glow in the dark puzzles for my Dodo.

We also had the opportunity to visit a cotton farm and collect some left-over cotton, harvest, estimate and count pecans, and visit (no riding this time, alas) some horses.

We went to see Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (which was good, but much faster paced than the book) but never made it to Narnia...at least not yet.

The holidays have finally passed, and even though it was wonderful, I think all of us are itching to get back into school. No way could we be happy doing nothing until the 9th like our public school counterparts. Ten times a day I hear, "What can we do? Can't we just do math at least? When are we doing school again?" and I say "Jump on the trampoline, play video games, blah, blah, blah."

We are totally ready to get back to school, provided we can continue to wear our fuzzy Christmas PJs all day. I don't see why not, I'd wear them to the store if I didn't hate drawing attention to myself.

Now, I mean we are itching to get back to our routine, back to our book learning, and back to our obsessions, as opposed to the way my sisters-in-law might mean school, as in "I can't wait to get these little monsters out of my house and back to being raised by a series of random, poorly-educated, underpaid strangers while I watch endless hours of patronizing drivel on TV."