Magniflorious Homeschool Life

 Hi, Homeschool Friends! It's been a while since I last posted and to be honest, things have been pretty peaceful around our house, though busy. I forgot to post in July because I was hyper-focused on my Camp Nano project. School even snuck up on me this year. ...So...how are things going with your homeschool crew? Here's what's been happening with ours... First Day of Senior Year was Yesterday!   So, yes, I'm working on putting together the new subject matter and trying to get a good schedule set up for Ro's senior year.  Science Ro's always been interested in rocks, so we're tackling an introduction to geology for science this year. When she told me she wanted to study geology, I thought for sure we'd have to do that through literature without a course curriculum but then this showed up in my web search. An Introduction to Geology (Free Textbook for College-Level Introductory Geology Courses) put out through Salt Lake Community College is a God-send, ...

 Welcome back to the blog! I've been contemplating how useful (or rather how not-so-useful) my latest posts have been. Since it seems I've been running out of things to share and no one else in our family is really on board with this, I am either going to drop my posts back to once a month and have this go out more like a newsletter, or just drop it entirely. More on that... New Year, New Challenges Everyone, or most people, make resolutions they seek to carry out over the course of the coming year. I don't usually do that because my goals are always the same: feed my relationship with my Lord, glorify Him with my life in all ways, help those around me who have a need.  This year, our family is starting out with a challenge. John is part of a group study called Soul-con which encourages men to be who they were created to be in the Lord, mind-body-soul. There is a program for women that purports itself as the same sort of thing. However, the study the men participate in goes...