(And All My) Work Be Praise

Given the ages of my children, I will only have two years when I am actively homeschooling all six kids, and this is the first. I have more spreadsheets going than ever before, four student paper planners, one kid using Google Classroom for assignments again, and a giant schedule on butcher paper so that everyone knows whose turn it is in the living room (for instrument practice) or on the laptop. BRING IT ON. Pretty sure we've only gotten all six kids awake for family devotions once in 8 days of school. LEVI: 11th grade Math: linear algebra and multivariable calculus through PSEO at University of Minnesota (online) History: AP world history at Sartell High School, second semester Science: AP physics C (one each semester) online English: World Literature: LLATL gold , Advancing Through Grammar Language: self-study German, with plans to take the AP German test next year Bible: Dust to Glory (Ligonier online) New Testament Extracurricular: piano first semester, wind ensemble at Sarte...

We're 2/3 of the way through the year! Leaves in Minnesota are just starting to change color! Just four months and one day till Christmas! Okay, I'll stop. I, for one, am never sorry to see summer go. But I did read a lot in the past four months! Books marked with an asterisk (*) I listened to on audio. Adult Nonfiction *Stalling for Time: My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator (some adult language) *When Strivings Cease (Ruth Chou Simons) Before We Gather: Devotions for Worship Leaders (for Sunday mornings...took me 18 months to finish the 52 weeks...) *The Day the World Came to Town (stories from a Newfoundland airport on 9/11) Adult Fiction Tress of the Emerald Sea Morning and Evening (Fosse) Authentically, Izzy (Christian author = safe and sweet, maybe too sweet for me) The Miracle Man *Lady Sherlock books 3-5 *As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow (hard but good) The Awakening (Kate Chopin) *Never (Follett) The Nightingale (historical fiction, WWII) Teen/Tween Lit Once a Castle (s...