It's been too long!

It has been too long since I've gotten to come on here and update my blog. Quite a bit has changed! Our "newest addition" is now 15 months old! She's adorable and very loud! Our little Joey is as wonderful as ever.. and A HANDFUL!! Abby our "princess" is still our princess and getting closer to being a teenager.. but not yet! Our oldest is a teenager.. oh boy! We have made some changes to our classroom, mainly because we were going to put our home up for sale and I needed to have the doorway I had blocked off unblocked. It's okay this way, but after looking back at the pictures I miss the way our room was last. It looked so neat and organized.
We have moved onto exploring "unschooling". I've been reading a book "Christian Unschooling". It's really great and so helpful! Our journey is off to a slow start, but I am sure we will get to where God wants us to be. I continually pray on his calling on all of our lives and for His guidance in our education. Currently Abby is working on a lapbook/unit study on Australia and one on Oceans. She is also very interested in fashion and writing. We did have a couple of great fashion books out from the library, but had to return them. I'm still contemplating whether or not to purchase them. I do have a mother's luncheon to go to very soon and there is a ton of used curriculum for sale, so I'm trying to hold off buying too much until then. Nicholas is into this show he discovered on Apacolypse. I've put together a unit study for him, but he's not too interested in it. I'm praying again we will find out way through this. Joey is very much into many things, but dinosaurs, Winnie the Pooh, Mickey Mouse and Scooby Doo are his favorites. We recently completed a few weeks on dinosaurs. Followed by a couple of weeks on "We Like Books" using a lot of Eric Carle books. Things have gotten a bit crazy lately so we're just filling in the day with activities. Kristen is into exploring everything. One of her favorite activities is painting... EVERYTHING! She does well at the easel though.

All of us, except for my husband are involved at the play at our church. My oldest is part of the stage crew, the rest of us are part of the play. It's exciting and fun, but also keeps us busy. I'm looking forward to the weekend of the performance and praying it will bring many people to Christ!

We no longer have our dog, it was sadly too much for our family. We will try agian another time. We still have our guinea pig and fish though. I will post some new pictures as soon as I can get to it.

Abby and I discovered an awesome craft of recycling many things and turning them into useful things for Barbie. We found it on You Tube. It's called my froggy stuff. It's so much fun for both of us! I love to craft and so does Abby. I'll be taking some pictures of what we've made for her doll house as soon as we finish each room.

A friend and fellow homeschooling mom and are going to be starting a new homeschool group at my church in April of this year, we're all looking forward to that.