a novel in a sea of magazines..

hello! this was supposed to be a picture laden post. one filled with gobs of pictures of my favorite people on this earth (if you have to ask who they are you simply do not know me) ;-)  but alas...it appears that our hard drive is acting up so, no pictures can be posted for now. hopefully, my computer genius hubby can get that up and running soon. ;-) yep, he's awesome like that. love that man!

i'll get up some pictures soon...i tell you..i absolutely love taking pictures and i am blessed with some amazing subjects to photograph. God is so good!

so, for this post i'm feeling all musical.. i will introduce you to my current favorite song. yep, i have been in a 'drew holcomb and the neighbors' kick lately and i'm okay with that. love their music! love this song!

you are a novel in a sea of magazines 

you make me nervous, you make my heart beat 

you are red in a sea of black and white 

you are a fire, you are dynamite.

yes yes...another song dedicated to my love, rocky! 

homeschool update with a splash of random pictures..

i have started to work with little man on an amazing book! teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons by siegfried engelmann.

i first heard about this book from multiple friends, including my sister, who either homeschool or are preparing their kids for school, and i was honestly quite impressed with their success stories from using this book.

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little man is progressing right along..i believe to date, we are on lesson 14. we have been working on two or three lessons a day, depending on how interested he is. some days we do only one, which is just fine.

i saw a drastic change in his reading skills even after lesson two or three. amazing!! he was quite shocked, himself. ;-) i could see shock on his face.

it uses phonics to help the reader-in-training to understand and recognize the letters as sounds, instead of simply letters. phonics is the way to go! highly effective! 

so far so good...will let you know more about how little man is progressing in reading as we move through the book.

oh yes..i promised you some randomness in the form of pictures,right?

so..what compliments learning how to read better than skateboarding? yep, these kids lead very well balanced lives, that is for sure. ;-)

more pics to come soon from our trip to the cousin's house this past weekend...stay tuned. more skateboarding pics to come as well..

have a lovely day!

blessings, 

kelly

p.s. i normally do a fairly good job with correct punctuation, spelling, and capitalization (way to pat myself on the back, huh?) but, beware that for this blog...i have thrown capitalizing words to the wind to sway among  the wildflowers...;-)  maybe it is me trying to be less picky or call it laziness or maybe it's because i do not have a great deal of time to be picky...maybe it's a combination, either way...it works.