Well, it seems like we just can't get away from major decisions in our life. The stress of moving, career change, new surroundings & relationships, a new church, etc. was enough to make the past several months exciting (& difficult). Now we have one more. As some of you know we have decided to homeschool Josiah this year. We came to this decision a few weeks ago after months of prayer & research. It is a total God thing, in our view, as homeschooling wasn't really something that we had considered until late in July. But it is clear that this is going to be the best option for where/who Josiah is right now. It will enable us to allow him to advance at his own pace and do work at his own level (his reading alone is probably near a 3rd grade reading level). It will also allow us to give him some individual attention for his development that I think is what he needs right now. Andrea began this morning after weeks of nightly/daily preparation. We've spent so much time choosing what curriculum we were going to use, figuring out how we were going to organize his materials & schedule, and staying up until about 2:00a last night getting last minute things ready. Everything went well. We haven't started all of his subjects (will begin the rest of them next week) so today was a good way to ease both he & mom into this new daily routine. I think it is going to be good in addition to being a lot of hard work. He is very excited about it & I think we're going to have a hard to holding him back from working ahead in his studies (if we decide to slow him down that much). Here's to a new adventure!

This morning we also went to Micah's new preschool for orientation. He got to meet his teachers and see his classroom. He will be attending Holy Trinity Preschool at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church a couple of miles from our house. It is a really nice facility and the teachers were very warm. I think he is going to have a great time. His official first day of school is next Wednesday.