This is the day the Lord has made, Let all the Earth rejoice!!!!!!!!!! This is the song I sang loudly in the car as I drove up to Nancy's house today to meet with our homeschooling cousins.We have planned for a Study Skills Seminar that we will do once a week for 4 weeks together. The reason for my happiness is that FINALLY we all live within 45 minutes of each other and we can get these kids together as much as we want to! Better yet, we can get together as much as WE want to !!! We gathered for a pancake and potatoe cake luncheon at 12:30. We had three electric griddles going and blew the circuit! Luckily, my Brother-in-law was home and he fixed that.In this picture you see 20 kids which is 4 kids shy of the total from these four families.You can imagine this Mother's joy when Jeff agreed to join us for lunch before hanging out with Grandpa for the afternoon! We had fun calling him a Homeschool alumnus.He was partially homeschooled so I won't give it all the credit for the success he is enjoying, but I will give it the credit for him wanting to have lunch with his aunts and cousins!
The Seminar is actually a purchased DVD Series of lectures from The Teaching Company.We had the Middle and High School students in our group watch 3 lectures on how to be an excellent student.I learned a lot! All the rest of the kids played well together both inside and outside of the new house. At 4 o'clock, Trent came in with a still warm "Fruit of the Forest" pie that we enjoyed with tea. When we were finished , we invited this class sized group of kids to have Aunt Cecilia's homemade chocolate chip cookies and lemonade. God Willing, we'll get together next week to continue our series.This is the day that we have all been looking forward to for years!!!!!!!!!
