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'!!!!!!!!

The Power of Words: 50 words that lift, motivate, and inspire from a LDS...

I LOVE THESE WORDS....I MIGHT TRY TO MAKE THEM INTO A QUILT, WHILE I PLAY TUG A WAR WITH A COUPLE 'IN LIFE' :)

My Heavenly Father Loves Me

13 th Article of Faith came to my mind whilst viewing this....

"We believe in being honest,true,chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men: indeed , we may say we follow the admonition of Paul - We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things."

Joseph Smith

HOMESCHOOLING - One of the best decisions ever!

2010 began with a jolt like no other....we began to home-school our family, through 'distance education' along with over 3000 Australian families!!!I believe we are growing together more as a family by being 'with' our kids as they face learning and lifes challenges.What's more we now have more family time....HOORAY FOR HOMESCHOOLING!!!