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I've been working hard on curriculum for our next "school year". We will be finished with what we are doing now and ready for the next phase in August, I predict, so I really need to get this finished and get things ordered. It is stressing me out as I thought I had found the perfect (or as perfect as it gets) curriculum last year and it has now disappeared. I wish I had paid more attention to the history of the person who was writing it so I had not set my heart so much on having it again this year, but this is teaching me patience and compassion when I am disappointed. I'm not complaining so much as explaining why I am now desperately trying to plan my own curriculum for next year. It is not the first time I have done this, but this time is so very different because last year gave me such a wonderful insight into how this should really be done.
The girls will all be going one day week to Brighton Academy, a homeschool...ummm...school? in the fall. Heh. It is not an enrichment program, but a true school offering real classes, for credit in the higher levels. A part time school? Whatever, they will all have some science, history and art, and Maria is taking a U.S. Geography course as well.
We have a ton going on with activities and sports these days. Maria made a competitive club soccer team, so she will be starting that up in August (man, were those try outs a doozy for all of us!). She is taking a speed and agility class twice a week right now to get ready for it and whip her into shape. She will also be going to a CYT (Christian Youth Theater) camp in a few weeks called Extreme Theater: Harry Potter. She is very excited as they will focus on makeup, stage combat, and tech stuff. Zoe will continue with gymnastics and is taking a conditioning class this summer. The move up to the level five team was a good one for her, my fears did not come true. She is having to work HARD, but is loving every minute of it. It is so odd for me, so much NOT an athlete, to be raising two very definite athletes. Luci is doing TKD still (she is an orange belt currently, working on her green belt) and wants to try out for another CYT show in the fall. Right now she is also taking some dance classes, low key, at the local rec center. She is so much more confident since starting TKD and doing Charlotte's Web in the spring. I am so proud of her. So proud of them all.
They are all going to a week long Orthodox Christian church camp the last week in July. I am SO EXCITED for them to be doing this finally! Some of my favorite childhood memories are from church camp. They went to VCS at our parish a few weeks ago and learned some of the camp songs so that really got them in the mood and excited. Maria had been very apprehensive about seven nights spent away from home, but she seems much more peaceful about it now. I wish I could be a fly on the wall and see all their experiences, but that is one of the things that makes camp times so special...the lack of parental control and interferance. My prayer is that this time will help bring them closer to making their faith their own and not just something I impose on them. Especially my little doubter, Luci, whose faith, when it comes, will be a wonder to behold, I believe. I do not doubt it will come. I don't know why, but I don't.
Brad moved back here about three weeks ago, and that has been a major and difficult adjustment, but with the bad there is good. The girls love their dad so much and, though they give him a mercilessly hard time, he is bearing up well and weathering the storm. Eventually, I hope, they will work out their own "thing" and some equilibrium will return. They like his apartment since he has a pool in the complex. He has taken them to his parents' lake house twice and they've come back glowing from the sun and good times. I am sad to miss those times now, but happy that they still get to have them. Learning to ski and wakeboard and surf the wake and tube and swim and jump off cliffs (o-O!!!!) and all sorts of other amazingly fun things.
We are still moving along. Now if I could just figure out this money/job thing....
The girls will all be going one day week to Brighton Academy, a homeschool...ummm...school? in the fall. Heh. It is not an enrichment program, but a true school offering real classes, for credit in the higher levels. A part time school? Whatever, they will all have some science, history and art, and Maria is taking a U.S. Geography course as well.
We have a ton going on with activities and sports these days. Maria made a competitive club soccer team, so she will be starting that up in August (man, were those try outs a doozy for all of us!). She is taking a speed and agility class twice a week right now to get ready for it and whip her into shape. She will also be going to a CYT (Christian Youth Theater) camp in a few weeks called Extreme Theater: Harry Potter. She is very excited as they will focus on makeup, stage combat, and tech stuff. Zoe will continue with gymnastics and is taking a conditioning class this summer. The move up to the level five team was a good one for her, my fears did not come true. She is having to work HARD, but is loving every minute of it. It is so odd for me, so much NOT an athlete, to be raising two very definite athletes. Luci is doing TKD still (she is an orange belt currently, working on her green belt) and wants to try out for another CYT show in the fall. Right now she is also taking some dance classes, low key, at the local rec center. She is so much more confident since starting TKD and doing Charlotte's Web in the spring. I am so proud of her. So proud of them all.
They are all going to a week long Orthodox Christian church camp the last week in July. I am SO EXCITED for them to be doing this finally! Some of my favorite childhood memories are from church camp. They went to VCS at our parish a few weeks ago and learned some of the camp songs so that really got them in the mood and excited. Maria had been very apprehensive about seven nights spent away from home, but she seems much more peaceful about it now. I wish I could be a fly on the wall and see all their experiences, but that is one of the things that makes camp times so special...the lack of parental control and interferance. My prayer is that this time will help bring them closer to making their faith their own and not just something I impose on them. Especially my little doubter, Luci, whose faith, when it comes, will be a wonder to behold, I believe. I do not doubt it will come. I don't know why, but I don't.
Brad moved back here about three weeks ago, and that has been a major and difficult adjustment, but with the bad there is good. The girls love their dad so much and, though they give him a mercilessly hard time, he is bearing up well and weathering the storm. Eventually, I hope, they will work out their own "thing" and some equilibrium will return. They like his apartment since he has a pool in the complex. He has taken them to his parents' lake house twice and they've come back glowing from the sun and good times. I am sad to miss those times now, but happy that they still get to have them. Learning to ski and wakeboard and surf the wake and tube and swim and jump off cliffs (o-O!!!!) and all sorts of other amazingly fun things.
We are still moving along. Now if I could just figure out this money/job thing....