I’m sitting here listening to Plain White T’s, popping Pep-O-Mint lifesavers in my mouth every couple of minutes,{by the way, thanks for the addiction Annette} going through thousands of pictures, looking for one of the girls with a smirk on their face {iheartfaces challenge this week} I know I have them, just can’t find them. {sigh}

Oh well, maybe next week. Just need to get the chalk out and talk bribe the girls into going outside to draw. I’m thinking a cone of ice cream will work.

Well, I’ve jumped back on the soccer mom bandwagon, the girls have been playing soccer for the past couple of weeks. At first I was not too thrilled at the thought of practice 2 nights a week, and Saturday mornings spent at the park going from one game to the next. But watching the girls out on the field, makes all the running around worth it. I wish I had some pictures to post. I’ll have to go through them again, several of the other player’s faces are in them. I either need to blur them or crop them out.

Homeschool is going well ——> so far. I ended up switching from Mystery of History to Veritas Press. The girls are enjoying it. They were just getting board with MOH so I figured a change was needed.  They also like the fact that we are finished in like five minutes. HA! They are learning, I promise. And the more we get into it, the longer history will last. Plus I have a long list of books that I need to pick up from the library that they will need to add to their reading. {not gonna like that part}

Do your kids give you a hard time about reading? The girls act as though they hate it. Which I don’t understand, because I absolutely love reading. I’d rather read than do most anything, there is nothing like getting lost in a book. Back to the girls, I have tried several different approaches to this, trying to make it fun & interesting, giving incentives, and finally telling them they HAVE to read every.single.day. Do you follow a curriculum? or just give books to read? Do you pick? The kids? I ordered an Anne of Green Gables study for the girls, thinking they would enjoy it, I was wrong. They hated reading and said that is made no sense to them. Really? We’ve only seen the movie like 1000 times!

Thoughts? Ideas? Wanna be the “reading” teacher?

Oh, here’s super cute quote about Math.

Dear Math, I Don’t Want To Solve Your Problems, I Have My Own To Solve