Homeschooling A Houseful

How we manage to get our crew out the door! With school starting and extra curricular activities, and Co-ops, along with regular life, we need to be able to move our crew out the door and to the van, oftentimes through a parking lot. Parking lots are dangerous, let alone one where everyone's trying to leave at the same time, such as a Co-op. This years school crew, the kids who go places with me and are involved in these activities are ages, 15, 13, 12, 9, 7, 5, 4, 2, and new little princess in November. or very close to that age :)   Let me also just point out that the ones 7, 5, 4, and 2 are all boys! Yes that matters! Even though some girls can be like boys, boys are still boys!     So here's what we do, let's look at our co-op, as that's one that everyone goes to, and everyone brings supplies and bags, plus Mom brings supplies for classes too.     In our Co-op we designate an area, or corner to be our dropping place. As you en...

Earlier this morning as I was having a moment, ok I was actually having a bath! Trying to soak some of the pregnancy pains out of my back and hips :) Oh if it were that easy! I had a thought strike me, an AH-HA as some might call it! It's interesting how each child has a pure genius, yet some may not seem to be so much of a genius!!! Ok so that's not exactly something new, but it has hit me at a time that I needed it, again. As I was sitting there, thinking about my 13 year old, and how "far behind he is in "school"" A thought struck me, honestly it was inspiration given by my Heavenly Father- as the peace it brought afterwards can only be from him. This thought was purely simple, YES, but look at what HE CAN DO!!! I started letting my mind wander and thought, yes so true, it seems the children who have the book smarts, don't have the street smarts. While those who can figure things out, and are hands on- get in there and get it done- don...