Oh my goodness! So much has happened since my last blog entry and it all began even before that! So, get yourself a cup of coffee (or tea if you'd rather) and settle in for an update!
October of 2014 found us moving from that home we remodeled in Michigan to another home in eastern Kentucky. I posted pictures online and blogged just a little, but we spent nearly the next year just enjoying the great outdoors and working on some projects outside on the two acres of land. Well, when we went to pull permits for some work on the house this past summer we were shocked to find out that no one was even supposed to be in that house and indeed it shouldn't have been sold to us. So, we packed up and headed back to good old Michigan.
We stayed with Grandma and Papa while trying to get ourselves reestablished in Michigan. Taking care of those pesky things like transferring the insurance and house hunting. We'd thought we'd only need to stay for a month or two. We were there from August until just the beginning of January! House hunting this time around was harder than we'd thought it would be. But we did eventually find the home we wanted, waited out the couple of months it took for the paperwork to be processed on the other people's side, and then had to redo the plumbing from the floor up in almost the whole house!
We've been in our new home for just over a month now and we're really beginning to feel settled in. The campers are back to their regularly scheduled lessons again (which hadn't been so regular until we were once again in our own home) and our routines are slowly falling into place.
I'll have pictures and more about the house at another time (I have to find that pesky link cord for my camera to upload them to the computer, I know it's around here somewhere...).
As for Elder Cracker Jack he's been turning into a regular teenage boy. He's now fourteen and of course thinks that he's heading on forty. Us parents can't possibly understand, don't know what he's going through, as a matter of fact we really don't seem to know much most of the time as far as he's concerned. At least until a doctor or someone else verifies the information that we've just given him. He's doing wonderfully at his lessons, though he still hates writing reports or creative writing unless it's his own idea. He's decided that he'd like to go to public high school in the fall, so we're working on getting him more involved with the co-op near us and getting him ready for the transition. He's been informed that if he's going to "do high school" then he is in it for all four years. He's not coming back home simply because he doesn't like his classes, teachers, or classmates. The high school can literally be seen out of my back window as the house buts up to their field for sports so it's not like he has far to go.
Younger Cracker Jack is chugging along quite nicely. Her reading level is still behind but she is catching up more every day. She's now reading things she sees all around us on her own without prompting and has been doing her language arts assignments with very limited help from me. It takes her longer than when I sat with her and helped her through it but she is doing it on her own and doing it well and that is what matters, not how quickly she can get it done.
Peanut, well she astounds me every single day. Today during spelling, remember that we use Spelling You See, she wrote this super cute narrative and illustrated it. The rhyme this week was I'm a little teapot and she wrote about how teapots were probably in the people's homes that were involved with the Boston Tea Party. And that it all happened because the taxes were too high. Her illustration showed a teapot, sword in hand, fighting with the king of England! Her imagination is priceless! She's popping up with words I didn't know that she knew how to read on a weekly basis and shocks me all the time with what she knows on subjects I didn't even know she knew about yet.
I could continue to write more and more all night long, but I would never get to bed and I have a busy day tomorrow. So, I hope this helped shed some light on what's been going on with us for the past 18 months or so and I sincerely hope that I am able to get back into the flow of blogging often!
No comments:
Post a Comment