Summer is winding down

We started our day at the pool today, it was another hot, beautiful morning here in Florida.  The kids in our school district started up last week and we plan on enjoying as many mornings as we can get in before the weather turns cools.  We should have a couple more months at least.  I suggested bringing some school books up there but no one except me liked that idea.  Caitlyn did bring her current manga though and read some up there. 

Every afternoon now we have been having some good summer storms.  I love these, it makes you feel so cozy and I usually read aloud while it rains and we are all just happy to be indoors and together with candles lit. 

Tomorrow Caitlyn and Brett are trying out an Intro to Chemistry class.  We usually don't enjoy the classes we try out so I am really hoping this one is good and at their level and they learn and have fun.  It's outdoors so that will be nice when it starts cooling down.  Tomorrow, not so much. 

We also have plans to take a tour of the Budweiser plant, I've heard its good and hope we enjoy that too.

I am looking forward to nicer days where it will be bearable to be outside and not be by water.  We have a very nice place in our neighborhood called The Outpost that we like to go to and have nature study and do other school outside and I can't wait to do that. 

We are in the middle of a curriculum and have schooled through the summer so we aren't starting or beginning a new study this fall.  I'll post about what we're using soon.

It's fall!

Trying once again to blog.

I'm a Mimi now!  I have a beautiful, sweet grandbaby.  Here's Maverick Finn and his beautiful parents.

The Harmon Family

We homeschooled through summer until this little guy was born in late August.  We had gotten up to WWII in our Modern History study and started doing a unit on WWII from Build Your Library Curriculum.  I think we were in week 3 when we stopped for Maverick's birth and are currently taking our fall break.  School will start back up the first Monday in November. 

During our break we are still learning.  I'm reading aloud The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder and we just finished Coraline last night by Neil Gaiman and had planned on watching the movie today, but we remembered we gave the DVD away because honestly, the movie was creepy and disturbing.  I had watched it with my oldest daughter a few years ago and we agreed we didn't care to see it again.  Of course I had forgotten all this and I don't see it on Netflix or Hulu.  I really wanted them to see the book come to life, so I'm going to see if our library has it.

Caitlyn and Brett have made a few short videos, that's their "thing" now.  They're currently working on props for a video they plan on making with their friends on Halloween.

They've skated some and played tennis together.

Skating in St. Marys

We took some good beach walks, some of which I'll blog in a separate post.

Exploring Big Talbot Island

Beautiful driftwood on Big Talbot Island

We explored historic St. Marys, GA again and visited the Cumberland Island and War of 1812 Museum, they faintly remembered doing that about 7 years ago.

Brett seeing how he would look in the early 1800's

 

Brett is on the 7th Harry Potter book, he had taken a break from the series a while back and recently read the 6th and now is on the final book.  Caitlyn has been reading some Manga, one series I know she is reading is Bakuman.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I signed up for a class on Laura Ingalls Wilder, he life and writing with Canvas Network, I'm currently reading Laura Ingalls Wilder:  A Writer's Life by Pamela Smith Hill, who is also the professor of the class.  It's been very interesting and I'm learning a lot about Laura, the Little House series, the autobiography she wrote and her daughter and her own writing career.

Caitlyn is, as always, working on her anime drawing.  She is currently working on her own anime, making mini food from clay and let me tell you, it looks so realistic.  Very cool.  Today she is moving into sewing.  She wants to make clothes for cosplay so she is making her first outfit for her Halloween costume.  Her sister has been teaching her how to use the sewing machine.

Learning to use the sewing machine

I think that's a pretty good catch-up.  I used to love blogging, but with Facebook and Instagram I've gotten lazy and it seemed so redundant to keep a blog.  However this is a better way to share and record our lives and learning so I'll see if I can remember it's here ;)