Oh the happy joy of hearing that we can probably sign papers on our new house this week or early next week! Buying this house has been fantastically simpler than selling our other house, and buying our other house, for that matter. I am so glad. The amount of hoops to jump through as a first time home buyer made things so stressful, but this time we just keep toddling along with no drama. We plan to begin moving in next Friday. I can hardly believe it.
We began to read Tales from Moominvalley yesterday and Lyddie loves it. I also love it and being generally in love with Scandinavia, this quirky story has Scandinavia all over it and is right up my alley. I am amazed at the cursive handwriting of both Lyddie and Millie. Their copywork is looking lovely and the quick hard work of introducing cursive in early fall is paying off. I'm really glad I went that direction. Rosie likes to sit when we do school with her spiral notebook and make loopy "letters" and gets mad at me when I move on to the next math problem or spelling word before she's "ready." It makes me smile and makes me realize how quickly the time will fly by until she's reading and writing, and then I want to cry that my baby is getting so big. Today we laid the foundation for multiplication with work on doubling and halving and I loved the light going on in Lyddie's eyes when she really realized what we were doing. On Sunday our sermon at church was about a passage in 2 Peter that speaks about false teachers. Lyddie was listening closely, and when we had a mini lesson about our hymn (The Church's One Foundation) over breakfast this morning and discussed the line, "by schisms rent asunder, by heresies distressed" these were setting up a really interesting knowledge base for reading later in the morning about Athanasius in Trial and Triumph, a book of stories of the early church. Athanasius spent most of his life teaching the truth of Christ's deity against the then-prevalent Arian view that Christ was not truly God in the way the Father is. The story of his life is very interesting, but it was made even more interesting by all the events colliding and the ideas of falsity and truth and standing for the truth were spreading long fingers out into our brains. Basically, school is the best. But don't ask how our session of watercoloring went. {It ended with children whining and me yelling and putting myself in a short time-out. Then we danced around and did the hokey pokey and ring around the rosy and everyone moved past the outburst. Weird.}
This afternoon was reading and cross-stitching and an elaborate game of "Calicraters" (aka Calico Critters in Rosie-speak), and researching photography (me) and baking a batch of Snickerdoodles because even though I'm trying so hard to lose weight, sometimes you just need to have a few baggies of cookies in the freezer to pull out for dessert. To cap off a really nice day, I got to have a scheduled phone date with a friend who is also using Ambleside Online to homeschool her son and it was a joy to talk and visit and laugh and dream about ways we can be alongside each other in our journey of homeschooling.
Congratulations on the new house!!! So glad to read that it has everything you've been dreaming about! It looks very cozy - wooden houses are the best.
ReplyDeleteSo thrilled for you all!
ReplyDeleteSo thrilled for you all!
ReplyDeletecongrats!!!! and it looks beautiful and appears to have good bones :) Welcome home!
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