Hooray for High-speed internet!

What a baby I am! A couple of weeks of no internet and less than 2 weeks of dial up was enought to make me pull out my hair! Actually the no internet wasn't as bad as the dial up. I would just check my mail at my s-i-l's and then no biggie, but having a dial up connection in the house was TORTURE!!! It was like needing chocolate, and all you can find in the whole house is the semi-sweet baking squares!! LOL!! I would try to pay a bill online...for example...and I swear I could have gathered up all my bills and drove to the bank, and still paid them all faster than trying to pay one online with AOL!!
Oh well, now we are wired up again. Yeah for us!
School has begun for the year. We started the first week with a few math drill sheets and the literature study I mentioned. I broke down and ordered the Math-U-See, thinking it would take a few weeks to arrive, and it was here in 2 days!!!! Unbelievable! So Grace is working in her MUS book now, Olivia needs to work a bit more on multiplication review before we dive into her MUS book! But that will work out well, I think.
Last week we continued to add in a few things. Olivia started journalling, and continued working on her literature study. She had a sick day as well, and we went to bible study one day last week, so it was still only 3 days of school for her. This week we are going to add in Science and more math.
Grace is working on her math, Bible stories to Read (and Bible stories to Colour) and we started her I CAN DO IT! Unit from Come Sit by Me. So she is working on a book...an auto-biography of sorts.
She is liking school now, and actually I am having a hard time scheduling enough stuff for her to do. I am always done my list of her things before she is ready to be done! I guess I will have to use my new high speed internet connection to print off a stack of colouring sheets as a back up! We will be getting back into her Sing, Spell, Read and Write this week as well though, so that will add a bit more work.
We start Afternoon Activities this week as well, so the kids are looking forward to that!
Prayer requests - that Olivia will quickly master 2 digit times 2 digit multiplication so she can get into her new math book. That Grace will stay interested. That Amelia will start to play a little more independantly in the mornings...at least for part of it. That Greg will enjoy his work. And that I will be able to get planning the classes I am supposed to be co-teaching!
Thanks!
C