Planning and Winning!

We are meeting Friday with several local families who want to start a home school play group. I am very excited about it! It will be some of the families that met off and on over the spring and summer and some new ones as well. Since we aren't doing the big co-op this fall I want to be sure to get plenty of play time and our group looks like it will have around 16-18 kids, which is perfect! Our first big venture will hopefully be to visit an apple orchard in September. I wanted to do that last year but time got away from me, so looking forward to that for this year!


I recently entered a contest and WON! I WON a scholarship to the "Free to be me! Bloggers Retreat 2009" in Florida! The retreat is a chance for Christian women who blog to meet and fellowship and learn more about how to minister to others through blogging. I heard about it from my mother-in-law who also entered but sadly did not win. They will be giving away more scholarships so hopefully she will win one also and we can go together! It will be the weekend of Oct. 23rd. If you are a Christian lady and you blog, you should also consider entering one of their contests or signing up to attend. It is only $100 and includes all your meals and lodging for the weekend! Click on the picture to read all about it! (AND if you live in GA we could always carpool!!!!!!)

That's all for now. We completed day 23 of school today. We are taking our "week" break (originally scheduled for the last week of the month) as a few days spread out here and there as needed...I think I like it!

Homeschool Group!

We started a new homeschool group today!!!! Bethany (Canaan and Zion), PJ (Kaitlyn), and Christi (Harrison and Maccoy) came over this morning for our first get-together. We have one more friend who will join us when she can, but one of her little boys had strep throat so they couldn't come. All of us live in Adairsville, so it is just a fun quick to go to kind of get-together time!

St. Patrick's Day was the theme for today. Bethany read a book and she told us all about St. Patrick's Day. Then, we sorted, tallied, and graphed Lucky Charms, an activity brought by Christi. After that we painted shamrocks on paper using potato stamps made by me, and then we all enjoyed delicious green grapes and green cupcakes brought by PJ. I just noticed that I forgot to take pictures during the painting...oh well.

The kids had so much fun...it was great to have just a day of "fun" stuff. Each of the kids told us somthing they would like to learn about so we have a list of ideas for our future fun days. Next week is "SPACE!"

I am thrilled to have these play days to look forward to. Noah especially loved the boy time!