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I've been silent lately. Lots happening. We had my sis-in-law and her family visit. They left last week. My boys, Brent and Caleb will be home August 9th. I'm super excited. Annette is home too!!! I haven't got pics of everything we will use this year. In fact, I've been so scatter brained that I haven't got all my ducks in a row. Hopefully, by Sept. I'll have it all together. I also got a new desktop and haven't switched all my photos which makes it hard to blog with no pics. For history, I'm excited and I haven't been excited about history for a few years now. We will use The Good and the Beautiful (G&B).  The reason I'm excited is because I'm going to use this with four of my kiddos: Caleb 11th, Brent 10th, Ethan 9th, and Lance 7th. We haven't done history together in years. At first, I was going to have everyone use their own history and I'm kinda sad that Lance won't be studying the 50 States. BUT I think this will work...

I was so excited when my daughter Annette started using some Thinking Tree Journals ! She uses the journals with her Heart of Dakota books. Annette is an avid reader. These are just some of the books she used her Junior year of high school. She also picked a lot up at the library. She checked out books about leadership, entrepreneurship, health (particularly about cholesterol and cancer), low glycemic living, biographies, religions, and so much more. I meant to take pictures of them throughout the year and could kick myself for not doing so. I did take a few but I have to find them in my computer files. With Annette, it was so easy to let her loose with her books and fun-school with the Thinking Tree  Journals. She is what I call a natural learner. It comes so naturally for her. She loves learning. I think it's part of that first born nature. She is our second child but the first born daughter (and only girl), a go-getter! She used parts of the 10 Subject Portfolio . She...