My readers here know me as homeschooling mom, but elsewhere I take on a different role in life! Up until 1 year ago I was the Children’s Ministries Director at our church where we are staff missionaries (meaning the church itself can’t afford to pay us). I passed this official title on last year after MUCH prayer and a very hard year of realizing I can’t do it all. I decided to put my family and homeschooling first and see where everything else fell. It has fallen in place nicely now that I have stopped trying to do it all. Praise God for helping me realize this.
There is one thing I still do and am in charge of at our church and it just wrapped up last night! Each summer I, along with a team of a few other wonderful women, lead a summer reading program called Reading Rocks. We developed this program at Cornerstone 4 years ago and it has been a highlight of the summer for our inner city kids ever since! This year was no exception, I feel it was our best year yet!
Last night was our finale party where each child got to choose a brand new backpack, new socks, new underwear, and a BIG bag of school supplies.
The party was a lot of work, it always is. But it is SO worth it. A bonus is that Pac-Man gets to participate and loves it so very much. AND it has him reading TONS in the summer months!
Even Krash got a little backpack last night…he was SO proud of his red bag that he picked out himself!!!
As fun as it is and was, I am glad it is over so I can go back to my #1 role as wife, mom and homeschool teacher!
Krash finally woke up around 9:30 and we just went through the morning schedule without really timing it, just trying to go in basic order. K wasn’t really into table Tot School, so we quickly moved onto the floor. My favorite part was the fact that he FINALLY gave me a cheese smile, and even did it a few times!!!
He even posed with Pac Man!!! 
Nothing to do with school, but made the morning great for me!!!
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Here’s our schedule, for those interested. I too would love to see other daily schedules as I have a hard time scheduling by time with the young ones. I think when they are older it will be easier but last year we didn’t follow a course schedule at all, I just made sure the work was completed for the day. This year I am doing certain subjects at certain times, hoping it will reduce some of the “Do I have to??????” whining (from Pac). For those of you who are new readers, Pac Man is 6 and he is 1/2 way through first grade, Krash is 27 months old. K’s schedule is not *set*it’s just a general idea. I basically have a schedule for him to help me figure out P’s schedule and how K fits into it!!!
set at a consignment sale and they stay up in a bag mostly. K asks when he wants them down. He is finally into making them play their sounds (they are musical).
He LOVES scissors and is determined to learn to use them ALL BY HIMSELF. He will not let me show him how and spends lots of time learning his way. This is the first time he actually got them to cut anything!!!
He played with our 
The boys used the 
They also set our small 
I was shocked when K took apart and put this McQueen (from the 
together. He worked and worked until he got it, all by himself!
I convinced him to play a bit on his own 
He also got to swing, a lot!!!
