Michelle's Family

I'm continuing to prepare for school Monday, my main task being that I become familar with Josh's new reading curriculum, Spell to Write and Read.

I've updated the Homeschooling page, which some of you non-homeschool people might enjoy if you like audio books.  The other person that I told you about has now begun charging for the use of her audio book website, so I decided to just post some of the books on my own page that I would like to listen to or that I want my ch...

Last blog, I told how Josh had told his sister that a picture she'd drawn was not her mama...that her mama was someplace else.  Ronnie thinks that Josh thought it was me...and was telling her that I was not her mama.

Jessica fully embraces me as her mother.  She is sooo adorable. She's just about the cutest things you've ever seen, lol.  She tells me 20 times a day that she loves me and often follows it up with how glad she is that I'm her "real" mama.&#...

My son continues to struggle with the fact that he lives here and with feelings of sadness and grief over his loss of his birth parents.  He told Sarah that he missed his "other" mama the other day.  I usually try to be extra cuddly when he tells one of the other kids this (he never tells me directly) but I've never just out right dealt with it till the other day...well, since the adoption was final I hadn't dealt with it directly anyhow.  Sometimes I would deal with it in...

I have to admit, I'm not looking forward to school starting this year.  For one thing, this year I'm homeschooling Joshua.  I'm hoping I will not get any "lip" about us homeschooling our former foster child, now adopted, son.  I'd hate to start the year with a lawyer and battle.  I guess I'm working myself up for a battle because I've read quite a few stories last month of similar situations and the schools trying to force the parents to put their special needs child back ...

My daughter could possibly one day be one of those really bad contestants on America's Idol tryouts that you see.  Jessica loves to sing.  She sings all the time. And loud.  She watched a youtube video with a little child about age 6 singing (wonderfully I might add), and she longed to be that girl.  The problem is she can't carry a tune at all. Not even close to a tune.  I've tried teaching her some very simple little songs that most 4 ...

We've been staying busy this summer trying to finish up school work that we didn't get to this past year.  But we're managing to have lots of fun also. 

We got the kids a new (above ground) pool in lue of a vacation, so they've been keeping cool and having fun in there.  Here in the south, the humidity can be so miserable that the kids don't care to go outside when it's hot.  So I'm enjoying them having an outlet for some of that pent up energy tha...

Recently I found a website that was apparently intended for public school teachers to post articles about topics they deem relevant.  I was quite surprised to read one person's "rant" about why he didn't believe in homeschooling.  He had a degree in journalism, so many of the home school families were quite disappointed at how misinformed and unresearched his "reasons" were. 

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Recently a homeschool list I'm on had a conversation about how colleges effect Christians kids.  The conversation has now turned to views on preparing our children for the world.  As a mom with a son going into 11th grade, I can certainly relate to the concerns that the original poster had when she asked how secular colleges affected Christian kids.

Anyhow, I've been thinking about this topic alot.  I made this reply this morning on the topic.&...

You know, I was always a kind of "green" person.  From the time that I learned about water conservation, fossil fuels, CFC's and recyclying as a child, I've wanted to take better care of our planet.  But here I sit as an adult, a few years older....and a heck of a lot smarter, and I realize that I can't believe everything that I was taught as a child or even what I'm being told as an adult.  Especially what I'm told as an adult.