Change

So, I haven't posted very much in the past few years, but we're still here!  I keep up with the kids' reading lists on this blog, but that's about it.  Just to update any my readers (if you're still there), we are still in transition.  After 11 1/2 years of living in England, we moved back to the US.  Currently, we are living with my mother and waiting to move to another state.  I just finished another year of homeschooling and working on planning for the next.  My kids are going into 4th, 8th, and 11th!  I am really hoping that we'll be moved before school starts, but we'll see.

Change isn't always easy, and we've had some changes in the past few years with my dad's death and moving country.  The kids are adapting pretty well, but we're all anxious to have a home of our own in the region we believe God is sending us to.  Once we get settled, things will hopefully feel easier than they have been.  I'm praying for a homeschool room, and the kids are hoping for rooms of their own.  Though leaving England was hard, we are excited about new beginnings.  It's just this transition period that seems difficult, but we'll make it!

Speaking of change, I'm working on changing the look of my blog.  Photobucket's new policy pretty much ruined my blog header and other images.  I'm not going to pay $5.99 a month to fix it, so I'm starting over with the design.  I'd had the same design for nearly 8 years, so I guess it was due a change anyway.  I removed a lot of stuff, updated some things, and changed my background.  I don't have a fancy header anymore (I designed the old one myself, but it got removed), but I'm okay with that. Blogger has changed so much since I began in 2009, and there are a lot more options now.  So, please bear with me as I discover all the new things Blogger has to offer and as I create a look and design I'm happy with.

Once we're settled in a home of our own, I'm hoping to blog more.  I'm brimming with ideas; I just haven't had time to blog about them.  I'd like to update all my geography units, and I'd like to clean up my toddler posts (even though my last toddler is nearly 10 now).  I know there are loads of broken links, so I'd like to fix those.  I also want to focus in on children's literature with a series of blog posts; I am, after all, a hopeless book addict.  I haven't had time to count my children's books since moving, but I know I have well over a thousand!  That's what I have in mind for starters....but, it will all have to wait.  I hate waiting, but that's life!

Blessings!
Debbie