Four years ago...

My gorgeous boys joined our family.  We just finished our annual reports for Ukraine and I can not brag enough...

Reichen started 3rd grade in the Fall (he didn't start K until he was 6 so I have him back one year selfishly wanting to hold him at home from collage until he is 19).  Karsh started 1st.

These boys amaze me...Reichen has started College Algebra and masters everything that is thrown at him in Math.I have him in two Algebra programs but he honestly grabs his College one as a hobby he enjoys it so.  I would have him do just that, but I don't have answer keys to all of the problems with the textbook and we are at that point where my son is smarter than I am, and it takes me a lot of time to check his work.  So I suspect we will stay with the High School program too, the instruction is good, all problems and and practices are shown how to work thru...and mom feels a little more in the loop.

Karsh is my natural student, things just flow into that brain of his, you never really know what he has grasped until he just spits it out and plunks answers down.  He's doing long division, absorbed his multipication tables in days with little effort, the summer before Kindergarten...and he is amazing at what he can build.  I always say Karsh is the brains of our family.

They both drool over History and want to incorporate Art History with each lesson.  They beg to do extra History Lessons during the day, they drop names of famous ancient battles and the details of them, they can look at a globe and rattle off mountain ranges and rivers from around the World.  I don't know what I have done to deserve such wonderful children who love our homeschool it makes it a delight to teach. They ask to go to the symphony, hop in the car to drive three hours one way to see the Opera...and they LOVE to travel.

I say all of this...as this will be our last post here.

The title of this blog is "insearch of our family"...started four years ago...and this family has long been found.

My new blog is in the works, while I have shared assignments, extensive travel plans and trips... for a long time with my local homeschool mom groups and national curriculum group we are now going to have a way to streamline that some...

It is not complete but we have decided to keep it public and I will share the information here before we start back to school on Monday.

The attached picture was taken on the Atlantic Ocean, the night we watched a baby loggerhead turtle swim out to sea that had made it's way up to lights where campers were.  We had spent two weeks there and were fortunate to be embraced by the crew who inventories turtle nests...and the night we saw the baby loggerhead turtle and prayed for him/her as he swam out into will always be one of the best nights of my life.