Journeying with Joy: Fall 2019

Despite my silence on the blog, we DID do a lot this past fall! School, of course. Here Little Man is working on his math.

And reading literature.

Our dog Gucci loves to do school with us!

I am going through "Who is God and can I really know Him?", a worldview curriculum, with Little Man. We went through it with the older kids when he was a preschooler, and before I pass it on to someone else I wanted to go through it again with him.

Both our boys are in my high school English class at our home school co-op. I developed a four year cycle of what I would do with my own kids at home, and then offered it as a class at our co-op. This is our year for "the long and the short of it," two long novels and several short stories. The novel we spent the entire fall on was the 1600 page book, Les Miserables! Almost every day I could find each of the boys in this type of reading situation.

Here is my co-op class!

Of course both boys played fall soccer with a homeschool team (fall soccer is when boys play for their school, and spring soccer is when they play either recreational or travel/club soccer). Early in the season son C was tripped during a game and ended up breaking both bones in his left arm.

Sister G, when we visited her at her apartment one weekend, had to sign his cast!

It was an odd break, and the orthopedic doctor had an MRI done on son C's arm to make sure there was no soft tissue damage. (there wasn't!)

7 members of our home school team are seniors this year, so we designated one of our game days as "senior day." We had a special time to honor each one, and to pray over them.

We played a LOT of games that were kindof far away. Falling asleep on the way home was a common occurrence.

We got to go to the home school National Tournament out of state! Super fun experience.

Son C (#19) with the ball.

Also this fall we squeezed in two different college visits for our senior. School #1....

....and school #2.

He would really love to play soccer in college. We are praying and waiting and trusting that one of these two schools will offer him a spot on their team.