Nearly Easter...and can hardly wait!

2011 hit us with a BANG! After a sweet Christmas and New Year Holiday in the Americas. To come home to floods and cyclones was a little disturbing to say the least. But for us the MODEM we so heavily relied on (and only bought last year) became and obsolute model....and our major telecommunications network failed us dismally to restore our network....after 3 continual months of modem problems with this network and 5million hours of my time used on the phone to rectify it ...we changed networks. Within 3 minutes of the 'southern phone' modem arriving the children were once again hooked up to the internet and their classes and friends :) best bit - we  no longer pay line rental yay! So goodbye major network and hello to a government initiative opposition in the market place.
The boys have puddled along with their school work. I am enjoying the grade six program more than the year five because it seems to 'change' things up a bit more.
Swimming at the start of the year saw little mate achieve a certificate towards his bronze medalion whilst his older brother (the artist) achieved a certificate level at the end of the year (2010).
So with Easter on the horizon I am indeed glad to have made the switch to home school through distance education. I belieeve the boys are becoming more intrinsictly motivated as opposed to extinsictly motivated learners in life. Have a Happy Easter and remember - the day was never meant to be about celebrating the 'chocolate rabbits'... HE paid a price for all of us...if we can just learn the importance of that - then we will begin to understand the 'purpose in life'!!!!!!!!