Well, despite the fact that I have a blog at Homeschool Blogger, I have decided that from now on I will be blogging exclusively here at Homestead Blogger.  I just don't have enough to write about that's just home schooling!  It's just part of our lives, the day-to-day (well, from Sept. to May, anyway!...we do take the summers off).  I post over there and rarely get comments and just don't feel like I've "met" anyone.  Here I have friends!  Some home school, some do not, some don't even have kids (or young ones still at home).  So I feel it's a better fit for me and I'm happy with it this way.

On that note, I'm just about settled with what we'll be using for curriculum this coming year.  I stil have the Obedience unit from Konos - that will cover the first 9-12 weeks (depending on how rigidly we stick to the schedule).  If it goes well I'll get the whole Konos volume 1.  We're going to do Math-u-See, because my kids saw the demo DVD and loved it!  They "get it" just from the few examples they saw there.  Works for me!  And I think I have finally decided on Alpha Omega's LifePacs for Language Arts.  It's affordable for me and hopefully the kids will like it.  And all of that is really for the 2nd and 5th graders.  My youngest is starting Kindergarten and I have so many little workbooks and "fun" learning things in the office shelves that I don't feel the need to push him into "formal" education.  He'll learn just by following along with the rest.  He's excited to learn, though, so I'll feed that!