Finding Contentment

Busy weekend

I find this pretty amazing. The brim won't do it, but the crappie and bass will. When you release them back into the water, they kind of float there for a minute and look at you before they jump and swim away. I took this photo of Mark about to release a crappie this morning. We plan on going catfishing tonight. I have been several times before, but only to watch. Tonight I will try my hand at catching these VERY big fish.

Yes, we are fishing twice in one day. But Mark starts work again Monday and doesn't think he'll get many opportunities to go fishing anymore.

Tonight I am cooking a birthday dinner for a friend. Tomorrow I will clean and declutter a large junk storage closet that has gotten out of control (an all day project). And Sunday I will finish up planning our homeschool lessons.

We start school again Monday and we are excited! We have only been homeschooling for half a year, and during that half year we tried a little bit of everything to see what we liked. We have decided to use a loosely based Charlotte Mason method, sprinkled with some unit studies. I purchased the Colonial Life unit study from Home School in the Woods and we very excited about it. The unit study looks great. We will also incorporate some field trips like this one at the historic Latta Plantation in Mecklenburg County, N.C.

This Homeschool Day at the Latta Plantation will allow the kids to see demonstrations of activities like gunsmithing, blacksmithing, fire starting and open-hearth cooking. We will also tour the plantation.

I hope the first day of school goes well without any whining or complaining   : P

Have a great weekend!

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11:09 PM, Friday, August 24, 2007 .. Posted by FoggyMountainFarm

Good Luck with the school year!!