One for the Record Books

Our first week back-to-school was superb!  I am so encouraged how everything panned, even the character building moments. We completed everything on our Agenda List and even more importantly we have fun!

I can't help but link our success back to the Texas Home School Coalition Convention I attended earlier this month. While at the conference, I had an opportunity to RESET, RETOOL and RELAX. I walked away from the conference feeling at peace with the plans that were set forth and determined to change how we were doing some things so that we could truly enjoy God's blessing of home schooling.  Some of the changes were character and heart issues, while others involved tweaking our daily agenda. I added daily devotions and exercise time to our schedule.  How can you not have a good day when you start your day renewing your heart spiritually and physically?

During the course of the week, we played a lot of board games, painted while listening to our Latin lesson, started designing our own board game, traveled through the bible with history, worked on phonics and spelling. The boys also attended their first writing and art coop class. This week was a huge success and I am glad I decided to ease into our work load.  Over the next few weeks we will add a few more subjects until we have a full course load. Next week, the plan is to add Geography and Math.