Welcome to our family blog. Our family and friends now have an avenue to keep up with us since we have moved soooooo far away from everyone! We are actually within an hour's drive of our parents, kids and most brothers and sisters so we are very fortunate. When it comes to staying in touch with those I love, I admit I'm the worst! You know, you wait until you will have plenty of time to actually talk and that never happens and before you know it, months have passed. I called a dear friend of mine yesterday who I hadn't spoken with in over a year and she said "Cindi, where have you been!" Thankfully, she still loves me and forgives my faults.
We moved to the country last August on approximately 20 acres. For those of you who can't imagine "why on earth anyone would want to move to Seymour", our home is situated on the top of a ridge so we have panoramic views of the valley below us, the main reason we fell in love with the place. The North hillside around our house is covered with Blackberry bushes; we went there for dessert several times last summer! The house is built in such a way that we have the advantage of passive solar gain. The windows are primarily on the South side of the house so that we get all of the winter sunlight streaming through. The overhangs are 2 feet deep so they provide protection against the summer sun, which is higher in the sky. I couldn't have designed it any better myself! Our last electric bill was $42.00. The kids love playing on the tire swing and the zip line, playing in the creek and going on "trudges" as Davey Crockett (intrepid, 5 Year old explorer) and dh call it.
I don't want to bore anyone with daily entries about "what we did in school today" but hope to provide interesting tidbits about the neat opportunities homeschooling affords and those oh-so-frequent aha! moments. The local school is on Spring break this week so we are, as well. Dd's choice--too bad the weather hasn't been better!
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