Moving again

Next week the movers come to put all of our stuff in boxes and ship it to CA. We've lived here for 10 months and it is amazing how much stuff one family can accumulate in that amount of time. I'm tired of cleaning out stuff. Next assignment will be for 2 years (unless the Air Force changes its mind). Our goal will be to get rid of things when we're finished with them. Though that's hard to do... we like to save... maybe we'll need it next month.

Change is good. We find maps and books we forgot about. Toys that have been in the back of the closet seem like they're new. It's hard to stop the boys from starting new projects with all of these "found" objects!

Ryan discovered word problems this week and is hooked. No one ever told him that you're supposed to hate word problems. And when he's run into them before and not been interested, we've skipped them. I'm very glad I've taken the low key approach. I'd much rather have my boys love to do word problems a little later than to do them and hate every minute of it. We talked about writing for next year and we both know that he's ready to write a lot but his spelling isn't ready for it. So we are going to work on a spelling program this summer... not school, just spelling. He's okay with that. Is it unschooling? I guess we'll find out.