Leaning for Momma

I don't know how many of you are on Khan Academy. My kids are, so I jumped in. I played around with some math tonight. There are classes offered by California Academy of Sciences. So now momma is watching videos on Biodiversity. Why the heck not?
I have found some other places online to learn for free as well. Many college and universities offer Open Courses. Here is a website that has a pretty awesome list of them. People of all ages can learn all sorts of things, FOR FREE! How awesome is that?


Resources:

BBC Learning

Duolingo

Smithsonian Education

Firetrucks and more

Today was a pretty busy. The first thing we did was go to our local fire stations open house. Hezzie did not want to leave. He worked on his stop drop and roll. He has a blast.
I think the highlight of his visit was putting on this uniform. He was so very excited. Now he wants to go back to the Fire Memories Museum. I know it would be fun as they acquire new items all the time.
After that Maggie and I went to say the Rosary for America and a local park, then off to a birthday party. We had a long day, but it was fun.
I know we need to move for more than one reason. I just am a bit sad at all the people we will be leaving. But, they are all apart of my journey, and for that I am blessed.
Next year we will be at a different Fire Safety Week, a different parish and probably celebrating birthdays with other kids.
Dexter will be enrolling in a full time public high school, we will be joining the YMCA and visiting the library a whole lot. We found a great local and active homeschool support group.
We have plans to add more fruit trees on the property and starting a garden. We have an area for tortoises, which we plan on adopting.  I am so happy things are finally coming together for our family. Our next big project is getting married in the church. One day at a time.....
Now I need to research local OT's. PT's and Speech Therapists,

All This and More

It looks like things are coming together. We should be in a new house at some point soon. Going on 40 and we are finally growing up. It feels crazy, good, stressful and peaceful all at one time. It's a big change and some of my kids are taking moving from the place we have called home for more than a decade is pretty scary. There have been tears, tics and even tantrums. We are going to do everything we can to maintain friendships. How can we not? Most of these people are really family.
I know some people think it's crazy since we are moving just under 45 miles away. It might as well me a million in some ways. We will have to make new friends, join new troops and packs, join a new Parish. We will even need to find new doctors and mechanics, even a new Walgreens. Yes, we are on first name basis with our Walgreens pharmacy and the makeup counter ladies.
But, change can be good, Very good. Our current hometown is becoming more unsafe, sexual assault crimes are up. Human trafficking is commonplace and murder is on the rise. Yes, I am well aware crime is everywhere.
We will have new places to explore. new places to make part of our daily lives. We will be more central to things that interest our kids, art, cultural and history.We will be closer to city and mountain. We will get to hike and fish.....What more could anyone want in an area?