Summer pics (was supposed to post in summer)

Luke's building decorative crosses. This one is for me; he made very individual ones for each family member. He's awesome!

Construction zone around here. They're building and measuring like crazy! Yay math!

Animals: science, responsibility, work, fun! Loving it! Yay outside space!

Model railroad museum and regional history

She does ballet. He does photography. He took this pic & hundreds more. :-)

Reading reading reading

This is the first day of "summer" and they got their school supplies out and busies themselves for hours.

Military equipment at the fair.

Goat milking at the fair.

We were moving. He's improvising.

Pre-K graduation 

My serious ballerina 

Music time with a family expert

Baking & measuring 

Sweetness (& writing for real purposes) 

Giant bubble science

My artists. Big brother idea and initiative!

Love good books! 

US geography tracking Granny & Papa

Leveling the yard. Engineering.

Just skip down to the sign pic... We are observing so many species of birds in our own yard!

Spelling with Legos. Cool big brother.

Incredible! We'll make the most of it! 

History lesson with GG's 90th.

We also visited a local historic gold mine, had plenty of beach science, rode a historic train and more .... But some pics fall through the cracks. We schooled pretty good over the summer without even trying. :-)

Oh, just found one of the mining pics!

And we're off

September, routine, tiny-space barn living, homeschooling.... We're doing it!  

Summer was filled with SO much work and moving and projects. However, there was a lot of learning mixed in there too. I actually blogged and posted twice over the summer and just discovered that both of those never actually published but are still listed as draft. .... There will be two summer oldies (hopefully) publishing out-of order following this post. 

The first week of homeschooling has confirmed what's been in my heart for years --- scary or crazy or no space, this is most definitely what I am supposed to be doing with that credential and masters degree. For the first time since my classroom days, I feel like I'm in my groove. What better classroom to run than one where I can focus solely on my own personal little treasures and invest in these three that I've been granted stewardship over? Of course, the third of those three is a two-year-old and can be a bit of a distraction. I've been telling myself and the older two that he is probably less distracting than 20+ classmates. Today our dear little distraction added a needy fever and some throw-up into the mix, while his older brother threw himself into a horrible attitude about school as he compared himself to his younger sister. Thankfully, she had no drama to contribute today. Today was quite a day; the previous five first days were much more idealistic. Good and bad; mud, sweat, cheers or tears, we're off!

My sweet needy one today. Whenever he gets hurt, he gets the "brrrrrr" (ice pack) from the freezer. Today he just laid it right on his cute little tummy.