February Sorrows

I'm weary of the grind recently. We are halfway through cognitive brain development with Reuben and it's lost a lot of the luster to him. I'm struggling to help him capture the spark of challenge and excitement he had in the beginning and it's started to feel like slogging through mud. 

But we persist. It's a good lesson that hard things are worth doing, and not everything that is profitable is fun.

We just purchased Becky's third Barton reading box which is exciting! She's doing well with it, but still struggling with fluency. She's sounding out every word. On every line. 

I wish we had a week off. We do have a month off coming up in April when Reuben finishes his cognitive brain development before Becky starts in May and I'm looking forward to it so much! The kids both have 2 weeks left of school in their perspective terms. Becky is finishing up term 2 of year 2 of Ambleside Online and Reuben is almost done with Term 1 of Year 5...time flies. I'm planning out summer break and wondering what I will fill it with--I'm thinking lots of swimming--between cognitive brain development lessons and barton. Everyone needs a break. I plan to have Becky finish Year 2, and Reuben to be at least halfway done with Year 5 before summer starts, but we will see. I want to finish by May so I may modify Becky's Year 2 so she can finish up...

Yesterday we went to the funeral for little Kemistry, pictured above with Becky holding her. She lived a short three months and will be missed so much...Becky spent almost all yesterday crying and missing her, and we've been talking and mourning all week. 

Death is a hard lesson to learn for any kids, and I would love if you would pray for Cyndi, Kemistry's mother, and Kimberly, my dear friend and her grandmother. She is in the sweet arms of Jesus where we all belong.