The Matt and Sarah Malone Family: March 2013

I haven't posted since January. What the heck? Well,I guess I do have a few good excuses:

1. Winter has been brutal. I'm pretty sure I have SADD or something. I want to crawl in a hole and die every time I look outside and see more snow.

2. I homeschool. I'm not sorry I do, but I have to admit the energy of fall and even the holidays has worn off and it's just a matter of forcing myself out of bed every day to do it. 2 more months! I think summer vacation this year will be more exciting for me than the kids!

3. We're moving. Again. It's right, I know that. For so many reasons, I'm super happy about this move. It's just the packing up all of our earthly possessions for the 6th time in 5 years that's killing me. And doing it while homeschooling. And doing it in the middle of the bleakest winter ever.

Am I depressing? Sorry.

Here are some pictures to balance out this super lame-o post:

I totally missed posting about Valentine's Day. My children are each so dear. This year has been amazing because I have really gotten to know each one of them better than ever before. They are smart and funny and so cute!

I'm sorry I said homeschool has me down. It's really been so perfect for us this year. So many of the things the kids struggled with last year are completely or almost completely better. Merrody is really thriving in her academics, Joel's behavior is never better (think 3 hour cleaning sessions every afternoon!). Jack has learned about 2 years worth of school in one! Norah is even thriving with her siblings around so much. And Baby Hazie gets so much attention from everyone! Aside from that, we are moving in the middle of the school year--exactly what I worried would happen if I left my kids in public school. Thank heavens this move won't alter anything for them at school.

Our homeschool has gone from this:

to this:

and sometimes even this:

And Hazie spends a lot of her school time doing this:

Our local homeschool community puts on a history fair in February and a Science Fair in April. The kids loved doing their history projects on Pocahontas, Ben Franklin and Colonial Times. They gave oral presentations and they even dressed up!

Well, Merr didn't love dressing up:) Now, they're in full swing of preparing for their Science Fair Projects. I won't ruin the surprise by telling you what they're doing. I'll post pictures when it happens. I can tell you that for one of the projects, my house is a constant chemistry lab. Thank heavens for Matt!

The local theatre company did a children's play last week. All of the kids auditioned. Sadly, only Jack got a part. We all went to cheer him on at his performances yesterday and he was the best rooster there!