Well, I finally came to the conclusion, that a lot of parents have the mind set that harder means better. Most families in this area use Abeka. Abeka IS a good program, but not a homeschool program IMO.
I had a neighbor with 6 kids. Her husband made her use Abeka, and she hated it. After I showed her ACE she wanted to change, but her husband wouldn't let her. The reasoning, there is a private school in this area that uses it and graduates top notch students who score well on tests. Is what he could not seem to grasp is that Abeka was very difficult for a mother with 6 kids at different levels. ACE was designed to teach kids as throughly as Abeka, but was ALSO designed for a family of multiple children at differnt levels. This poor lady had to school year round pretty much all day 6 days a week to keep everyone where they needed to be. And of course lots of times some of her kids were sitting doing nothing, because they were having to wait on mom to get to them.
Sounds like you had a good day. We went and watched my daughters step son play a baseball game. That was fun. We went on the motorcycle. Then last night Jenny and her husband Travis came over for supper. Travis brought his guitar and picked around on it, Jenny and I did some kareoke:), then we watched a boxing match.
It is suppose to be cooler today, I hope to ride some. We are all getting excited over going to the clinic in June. We got a form we have to fill out that asks questions about our barrel racing experience. I guess they divide up into groups according to that. I have a feeling me and the girls will be in seperate groups, as they are much more advanced then me on barrels. OH NO:), Jenny is my secuity blanket.
Becky