First Week Back to School, Slow Going

When we got home from our Christmas vacation, first week of 2014 I was so excited to get started with a fresh new life. New school year, revived in faith, cleaner house, healthier life, everything that comes with the new year.  But that is not what I got, what I got was a house full of sickies, and beaten down with it myself.  My doctor called it "death walking" and that is sure what it felt like.  No antibotics for just a virus, wait it out , even though it takes what seems like forever!

"I wear my fancy dress, I love fancy dress"

You know things are bad when the ADHD kid doesn't want to play.

We did not keep this "death walking" to ourselves, we are generous people, we left it with our entire extended family in both Chicago and Maryland.  Aren't we sweet?

We slowly are getting to the exciting fresh start I wanted and did a "light" week of school.  Very sick Mommy and very sick kids can only get so much work done.

Working on the difficult sgwiggly letters

Hand eye coordination with some lace and weaving

Homeschooling allows kindergarten/first grade Monkey to do class work alongside his PreK sister! They help each other and and loving doing it.

Lily's current course work is simple, colors, shapes, numbers...causally only when she has interest in it and only in what she is interested in (with some gentle pushes) 

 All of Cupcake's school stuff and a ton more came from a package from our Papa, every couple weeks and every holiday we get an overflowing package of treats and fun and the kids just loose their minds.  This time it was full of school stuff which really got them excited for the start of our new semester.

      

Here goes with prayers that next week we will all be healthy enough to kick this new year's butt!