PS: Alkhin, did you get the latest drawing?
PPS: Hi, Ruthy! :)
Hi there! Long time, no see. Did you have a nice Christmas and New Year's Day?
*am excited now!*
SuziQ - I cannot tell you how thankful I am for your encouragement. This will definitely be a year of adjustment for everyone. God grant me the patience and fortitude to see it through!! I have told Erin that she can make up her own address book to get phone numbers of the people she would like to call and we can plan to get together. Her birthday is coming up in March so I think a special party might be a good thing to have for her. It always seems to fall during spring break though, so it will ahve to be on an 'off-day'.
One thing erin hopes to do as a homeschooler is get involved in a veternarian clinic. I have told her that I'd like to wait until we get a little bit settled into a routine before we start branching into something like that (if there is anything a fifth grader to do that is). She *is* excited about that possibility.
I am running out of books to read to her. I am going to try Pride and Prejudice again, but the last time I tried, she complained an awful lot, not just over the words, but the general language and style of speaking. At her age I woudl have soaked something like this up. I can't figure her out sometimes. I am trying to compile a list right now. The real Black Beauty novel is one on that list. She loves stories about horses. She also loves the American Girl series. I had been reading Johnny Tremain to her over the summer, to find out that it would be read during the school year, so I stopped that because I didnt want to spoil it for her.
You know, there aren't a whole of books on the colonial era.