Kerr Christian Homeschool Academy

Happy Birthday to A!!  8 years ago, September 22 was a Monday.  S spent the  day with my good friend Dawn while Craig and I went for one of my non-stress tests (NST).  While at the hospital, where my NST's were being conducted, the monitor said I was having contractions and that they were losing the baby's heartbeat almost every time.  So, Dr. M told them to check me in and she came a little later and broke my water.  She also left instructions that I was to get a pioticin drip after an hour - I never needed it!  5.5 hours after being checked in, and only several hours after having my water broken, A was born.  She was extremely considerate of the dr's schedule - she came after office hours but before the dr had to pickup her own children. A came out with a head full of hair - the dr claimed we could braid it already - weighing 5 lbs and 15 oz.  She also was 21 inches long.  And, to this day, she remains a petite little gir...

Passionate Homemaking Not everything needs a lesson behind it! Be careful not to turn everything into a lesson. Children need to see their parents having fun just for the…well, fun of it! Bless Your Heart "Have you thought about the fact that the controller of your destiny is either the One with the heel bruise or the one whose head was crushed? Have you thought about how disingenuous it really is…how very short-sighted…to be living it up in the party of life when the party is hosted by a dead snake? "

Z asked about a month ago if he could play football.  So, we searched the city's website for information about flag football and found that signups where happening right now.  We signed him up and his first game was this past weekend.  Unfortunately, the city decided that the first game was to be at Cowboy's Stadium.  Under normal conditions, it takes a good hour to hour and a half to get there.  Under the traffic/road work conditions on Saturday, it took Craig and Z close to 3 hours to get there.  The game lasted for 30 minutes and then took another 2 hours to get home. However, Z LOVED it!  He got to run and run and was even tackled several times.  He hopped right back up and kept on going.  Because of the traffic, the coach didn't make it to the stadium until after the game was over, so the boys played in their regular clothes with borrowed flags and a borrowed coach.  So, in some of the pictures, Z is wearing a red shirt.  ...

10 years ago, September 2, was a Sunday.  I was feeling a little bad that morning, so we didn't goto worship.  By 12:30, I decided I was feeling bad enough to goto the L&D.  We spent the next 9 hours walking the halls of Christus St. Catherine, hooked up to monitors, and finally hooked up to an IV and a pitocin drip.  When my water was broken, all the fluid came out so fast, it scared the dr and I was put on oxygen and placed head down on the bed - to keep the cord from coming first.  Finally, at roughly 9:30 at night, my 1st child was born.  She was a pretty little girl - no funny shaped head - with some hair (we thought it was a full head until her sister was born 2 years later).  She was 7 lbs and 12.5 ounces.  We spent the next fews days learning all about dirty diapers and nursing.  One of my nurses - Dottie - was great.  She took the time to make sure we knew what we needed to know.  S was a slow nurser and Dottie took the...

We are coming to the end of our 2nd week "back" to school.  What does that mean for people who school year round?    ----- We are back to a full schedule instead of a lite schedule.   -----  and, the girls are officially in the next grade Why do we keep track of grades?  Because they do in Bible class.  How has our 2 weeks gone?  Pretty normal for getting back into the swing of things.  Since we were gone every day for most of the summer, we started late almost every morning the 1st week - because it was so nice to just relax in the morning!  We also spent the week figuring out where we are and printing any additional worksheets/schedules/books that we need.  We didn't get everything done because we were re-adjusting other classes and because we had a "cool" day (<100) with which the kids spent the entire day outside.  We also had one day off for Mamaw and Papaw and cousin visits. The 2nd week was...

I decided that our character training this year will follow the Fruit of the Spirit.  I found, several years ago, a Fruit of the Spirit Tea Bible Study .  And Confessions of a Homeschooler has a week study guide for each Fruit. I picked Sunday afternoons for our tea - which we'll do once a month.  Why Sunday afternoon - because it's what's free and because Dad can often join us.  Then, through out the month, we'll talk about what each fruit is about and how we can demonstrate it in our lives.  The Confessions study is geared toward the younger set and instead of taking a week, I'll make the days correspond to the weeks of the month.  ie: Day 1 of Patience will be week 1.  There are only 4 days worth of activites/studies.  The Tea Bible Study is geared at a junior/high school or older level.  However, I like the idea and the questions are easily adaptable for younger children. I decided to start with Patience - because the Tea Scone ...

This week, we started on our home ec projects for the year.  The 1st non-cooking project is the create a sewing box.  And since Z couldn't be left out, he made a treasure chest.