November Homeschooling!

I am thankful for the ability and time to homeschool!!! I love getting to have all three of my girls home with me every day and getting to teach them and watch them grow. So here is a little update on what we have been doing during the month of November. First, Lily started to get bored with writing in her journal. We decided to make a Thanksgiving writing folder. We worked on poems and writing about things that we learned this month. Here are a few pages from it:

We also completely finished Hooked on Phonics and then we did a workbook from walmart. In November we started using Accelerated Christian Education for our reading. We are really enjoying it. Each book has a memory verse that they focus on each day plus working on the skills she needs. She worked on learning when to use to, two, and too. She also worked on vowels and when to use A or An. She has mastered all of these skills this month. I love it!

We completely finished the Alpha Omega first grade history curriculum in three months. Lily loved it, but it was too easy. So now we have been learning about U.S. Presidents. We simply got this book from the $1 bin at target. It has great information on each president with simple games. Lily loves learning which president is on each coin or dollar.

Now I think we might take a break from some of this next month. I am wanting to work more with Lily on geography by doing Christmas around the world next month. In writing, I have another fun book for her to work on. Hope you enjoyed seeing what we have been up to this month!

Why I love November and Thanksgiving!

November and Thanksgiving mean very little to me when I just think about having a big meal, but when I add in time with family and being thankful, then it becomes a wonderful holiday. I always want to be intentional with my children. I want to really spend this month teaching them about being thankful for what God has given them!

Top 10 things that I am thankful for:
1. My salvation through Jesus Christ and my relationship with God!
2. My wonderful husband who loves me unconditionally and is always there for me.
3. Three beautiful, smart daughters who are so fun to play with and to teach!
4. God's provision...a beautiful house that is big ENOUGH. :)
5. Wonderful, Godly parents who have taught me so much about how to live my life to the fullest!
6. Great extended family to spend time. My sisters who are so great to talk to and my brother-in-laws and my great in-laws. I love having lots of family to love.
7. Five adorable nephews...okay the 12 year old might not like adorable. lol. I love all of them so much and have so enjoyed watching them grow up!
8. My girlfriends have made my life so much fun! I would name names, but that would take a long time! ;) Very blessed!
9. Thankful for my co-op, life group, and mops. These groups have all been such a blessing in my life.
10. Gotta add health. I really am thankful that my family is healthy and able to do so many fun things!

On that note, I have a bunch of recent family pictures! I love family!
We greatly enjoyed spending Sunday with two of our nephews. They came to church with us, had pizza, made fun stuffed animals, and played outside all day! That is a perfect way to spend the day!

Lily and Valerie love hot tub time with their cousin Dylan! Too much splashing for us adults though!

This was Jason's birthday picnic with my parents in November!

Happy Thanksgiving if I don't blog again until then! :)

October and Halloween

Oops! I went to write my thoughts on November and Thanksgiving and I realized that I had not written anything about October and Halloween!


I love Fall! I love the leaves changing and I love the cooler temps. I admit that by the end of October it feels too cold and makes me want Christmas! Halloween is not my favorite holiday for many reasons, but I love playing dress up with the girls.

Lily was Strawberry Shortcake, Valerie was a genie, and Daphne was a lil baby monster. Fall is a great time for fun playdates. One of them was with Moms like Me Magazine at the library and the girls all got in the magazine this month!

We also had fun at the pumpkin patches. We went to two of them and had fun with the hayrides and pumpkin picking!

We also finally took a family picture. Daphne was 3 months and I realized that we hadn't taken any pictures as a family! I love having three girls! Aren't they pretty!