Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Life lately
Well life lately has been a little hectic! The girls want to be held all the time or they are crying :(. They love their bed and love to sleep, but when they are awake they just want to be held! We have tried swings, setting them on their tummies with toys, bouncers, everything!!! And I even let them cry it out..but the problem is they will cry it out forever..I'm talking an hour or longer! They just want to be held! With Landon that wasn't a problem because he was only one, but when you have two..its rather difficult! I wouldn't get anything done around the house or any time with Landon if I held them all the time. They are cute as a button and I love them to death, but am in a little bit of a pickle! I am trying to be optimistic and hopefully this stage will pass soon and they will start liking the swing or bouncy?! We are headed to the lake this weekend for fourth of July so that will be tons of fun! I will have lots of pictures I'm sure ;) ! Oh, we finally sold Luke's car and will be getting a van hopefully sometime this week to drive down to the lake in so we are not so so so crammed and can actually fit stuff in there to take! Ok well happy fourth everyone!
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Hi Amanda!
I'm stopping by here to answer your question regarding TruthQuest History (if we're still using it and why or why not). I'll post my response on my blog, too, within the comments, but just in case you don't check back there and this is easier for you to see, here is my response:
We began with TQ American history-- the first three books from Level 1, and LOVED it. It was a perfect fit for us.
The way the guides are laid out is that it's essentially a big book list- one or two main history books are listed ("spines") along with any other books that she recommends to go along with that time period/topic. You can sort of choose the topics you're interested in, find the books and read and learn!
We then moved to Beginnings, then Ancient Greece & Rome and all of a sudden realized there were way fewer books than the previous guide and we found it increasingly difficult to acquire the books listed in the book guide (not the spines, but the others). Our library didn't have them or many of them were out of print, and I didn't want to purchase them sight unseen if I was able to find them online somewhere-- also they were pricier because many were out of print.
Also, a note about the summaries, which are Michelle's written narrative throughout the guides. (I don't actually remember these so much from the American History guides, but definitely in the others we purchased (Beginnings, Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome)).
She has written summaries for each section that you're supposed to read aloud, to sort of introduce the section/topic. I found myself re-summarizing her summaries, just because that's not the way I would say things. (Does that make sense? It's written very conversationally, but it's not the way *I* would communicate with my kids; not my "voice". So it felt funny to me to keep reading her "voice"/reactions because it's not what I would say.) Not that there was anything WRONG with the content, but she just had a certain style that wasn't me. ;) I hope that makes sense.
We eventually realized that most of what we were getting we either couldn't use (out of print books, etc) or were tweaking to suit our desires (her written summaries), so we chose to go another route.
I hope that helps! I still think the American History guides are great-- Level 1-- and there were TONS of books to choose from, so I would still heartily recommend that. :)
We now use Ambleside. (It's free, the spines are the same ones she listed, and we tag on other living books as we find them/hear about them).
Blessings to you and yours,
~Stacy
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