As a lifetime lover of books and a homeschool mom...

I've always taken great care in the treatment of the books I read. So imagine my feelings the other day as my dh began reading to the dc their read a louds from the Sonlight Cores that we are currently studying...

Take a look...


And here:



I wisely snapped the pictures and kept my thoughts to myself

Wordless Wednesday!

I know y'all are all on pins and needles waiting for this post!

The Acreage Gamecocks made it to the SUPERBOWL!


After a dismal beginning losing 5 games straight, it seems surreal that we are headed to our leagues Collegiate division Superbowl. But we are. Tonight was 7 wins in a row. I'm so proud of our boys. They remain humble and good sports. Horrid rumors were spread about our team and cheating once we started winning, but our boys remained calm and went out their and played every game to their best. Now we are have the possibility of going home with the championship game. Tonight we won 14 to 6. The team we'll be playing won 6 to 0 just before we played. So it'll be the Fighting Irish vs. the Gamecocks this Saturday. Wish us luck! woohoo!!!!

The playoffs have started for our league and Jacob's team passed the first hurdle!

We beat the Hurricanes, 6-0 last night to make it to the second Playoff game on Saturday. We will be playing either the Seminoles or the Mountaineers, not sure who won last night after we left, but I'm guessing it's the Seminoles. Who ever wins that goes on to the Superbowl for our age division. Considering that the Gamecocks began the season with an 0-5 record, WOW! We are ecstatic. I am so proud of how hard all the boys have worked this season. Probably half the team are boys that have never played before.

This was Jacob's first year and he was really struggling at the beginning. Everything he has ever done has come easy to him, EXCEPT this. He had to work hard, struggle through the hard times, keep going when he wanted to quit and he did and I'm so proud of him. Here's a less than stellar picture of him in uniform, but alas, my digital card is too small and I filled up my card, I'm really in need of a new one, lol.

I've become the "mom" of a teenager. And I didn't even have to birth this one!

My cousin, Ian, has moved in with my dh and I. He is 16, 17 in March. He's a good kid, but he is really struggling with some behavioral issues that his mom in unable to address appropriately. He has been diagnosed with ADHD and they have never actually found a medicine combination that works for him well. He is so far behind in school and while I'd love to homeschool him, I cannot make any of those decisions for him. His mom is refusing to sign temporary guardianship papers over to us. This is very frustrating. But he has seen his counselor and hopefully the counselor will be able to help them get this taken care of. From what he said to Ian at the session last night, he definitely thinks we are doing the right thing. I am praying that we can help him become a young man who is self-sufficient and capable of making wise decisions for himself.


So, that's the drama in my life. I sooo dislike drama, unless it is on stage or screen, lol.

I'll post some other awesome news in a separate blog entry because it deserves it's very own entry :)