Getting back to business

Goodness gracious, it's been far too long since I gave this blog some love.  Our little vacation was wonderful, but it definitely threw me off track in terms of both schooling and blogging about it.  The one thing that absolutely got done while we were out of state was PE: the kiddoes were in the pool for hours every day.  The end result is that Hulk is now both floating and swimming quite well, and Goblin is now dunking his head under the water at will and floating.  He's really close to swimming as well, so I look forward to our next chance to get them all in the water.  Even Athena improved: she worked on learning new swimming strokes and practiced lengthening the strokes she was already using.

We've been staying afloat and keeping up with our language arts and math work, but everything else fell behind a bit.  I love how easy it is for me to cover the kiddoes phonics, spelling, reading, writing, grammar, etc all in one with Logic of English.  That has really been my lifesaver over this past month or so.  Our math work is equally easy to keep up with because everything is mapped out for me.  As much as I love the fun things we add in and experience with our other curricula, it is really nice to have the most important parts of our learning not require any extra planning on my part.

Right now I'm pouring over resources for our unit on ancient Rome which we're starting to look at this week.  The kiddoes had a wonderful time studying ancient Greece, so I hope this grabs their attention as well.  Either way, we're getting back on track for school work, and now I'll be getting back on track in this blog as well.  Many more crazy adventures ahead. :)

--Little Miss Crazy