Well, I should be ashamed of myself....I have had this blog for several months and haven't done a thing.

My confession is, I am a terrible blogger...but I am compelled to keep trying.

We have had a busy and sad week.  One of our rescue horses had to be euthanized.  He was my buddy and I loved him dearly.  It was an anguishing decision that had been coming for over a year.  We did everything in the equine world to help him, but in the end our wonderful vet helped us to clearly see that he was suffering and we could not abide that.

We are gearing up to begin school again.  I can't even believe I just typed that.  It seems like May just left us and now we are entering August.  Does anyone else feel like they are holding on to life like the end of a runaway kite string?  To say time flies just doesn' t do it for my emotions at present.  It's somewhat like saying the Eiffel tower is big.  I am determined to slow down this school year, not rush or press the children to my time schedule and enjoy loving and learning with what  is around us each day.  Our focus on character will be greater this year.  As will our continuing focus on family relationships and service to others.  We will use FIAR and Beyond as we always do, but I am also pulling from My Father's World again.  And, we will continue with our Neurodevelopmental program.

Once I figure out how to post pictures, we took a really cool one of a leaf with a spider sac found on it by one of my boys this week.  We looked at it under the microscope and it was SO cool! 

Amazingly, I did figure it out.  Isn't that interesting?