kindergartener

I cannot believe in a few short weeks I am going to have a kindergartener.  When I was teaching, kinder and 1st was my favorite ages to teach.  There has not really been a doubt that we would ever homeschool the girls, but we definitely weighed multiple options and prayed countless prayers before making our decision.  Because I have so much curriculum and supplies for teaching this age I just figured I would create something for the girls.  When we found out we were having a baby mid-school year I was concerned I would need to have everything ready before baby #3 arrives or that I would slack b/c of Mommy duties.  Since LE is already reading CVC words I struggled with "the make sure she gets what she needs" mentality, but knew we must be doing something right for her to be doing so well without any formal education.  Recently Ben and I attended CHEACT for central Texas homeschoolers.  It was downtown Austin and we were running late and missed the first 25 minutes of the one presentation I absolutely wanted to listen in on - Hands-on learning for kindergarten and first grade.  I love the whole idea of Classical Education for homeschoolers, but knew that was not what my kiddo needed this early.  Within 3 minutes, I was choking back the preggo tears and knew this was the program for our girls (at least in the beginning years).  Ben agreed.  She is so excited too, both of the girls are as we ordered Bella her own pre-kindergarten curriuclum so that she is not doing LE's work before she is ready and does not want to do her work when it is actually time for her to do so.  We are all so excited and so relieved that the Lord so clearly showed us this is "the one" for our family.  I love that Ben is just as excited and ready to play his role too.