My Life

I guess an update is in order. Where to start????

Here we go....in no particular order....just what pops into my mind at the time.

1. House

Things are up in the air a bit. We're not sure if we'll keep our house on the market or continue to try and sell. Because of job changes with only three months left of the tax year, it's proving to be tricky to get a good pre-qualification letter. We're hoping to know tomorrow about a couple other options. But we may have to stay in this house for one more year to have a good job/salary history on this year's taxes, then put it back on the market.

We have found (another) house that we would like to put an offer on. Yesterday or today it dropped $5000. Which could be a good thing in regards to the pre-qual. But we'll see. It's a cute little house on about one acre.

If it's the right time, it will happen soon. If it's not the right time, it won't.

2. Me

I guess I never updated my blog about this but.....I've taken a step back from midwifery. I've been struggling with what I needed to be doing for a couple months now. I finally made the decision to do that and have felt so much peace it. I am still doing home births but as a midwife assistant. In addition, I am taking on doula and monitrice clients again. I imagine that sometime in the future I will pick back up and complete requirements for my CPM.

3. Kev

The NBA season is wrapping up (at least one more game on Friday...unless the Thunder starts playing some ball against the Lakers right now as I'm typing this and actually wins this game!!). This means we will loose income. Income we need for..oh..just things like groceries, gas, car payment. Ya know..just those little things. I haven't been too stressed about it. We have some money put back to dip into. Although with possibly moving it's money we could use for down payment, moving expenses, etc. But still...not stressing.

Today...out of the blue...Kev got a call to do some audio engineering work for the next 48 weeks. :) It won't be quite as much as the NBA income but enough that we won't have to dip into our little savings as much!!

4. School

I posted a while back a little about what curriculum we'll be using next year. Well, some of it has changed. After some more looking around, some planning ahead for Em, and reconsidering a few things, I am going a different route for a couple of subjects. Now it looks like this (I put the changes in bold):

Together

Bible Study

Prima Latina (We're going to re-start this. I was reading somewhere that Leigh Rowe recommends doing this, then Latina Christiana, and THEN First Form Latin)

Tapestry of Grace Year 1

Art in Story

Music of the Hemispheres

Em
CLE Math
CLE Language Arts

IEW Teaching the Classics

Caesar's English I

Typing

I guess that's really all. Still deciding if I want to keep using Wordly Wise with the other two girls. In looking ahead for Em I realized I didn't want to keep using CLE for Reading and Language Arts. I want all of the kids to have exposure to classic literature. CLE does that a little bit but not to the extent that I want. We will continue to use CLE LA for the next two years (at least that what I'm thinking of doing now..lol) to get through level 700 and 800. After that we will switch to Michael Clay Thompson's Academic Writing and Within the Word along with IEW for Reading/Literature.

I am SOOOOOO excited about using TOG! So excited. I just need to buy it and start printing (the digital edition is much cheaper!), planning, and gathering books.

So there you go. That's a little update about us and the goings-on in our home. :)