With the new semester coming, J-12 and C-5 are starting new experiences and T-8 is coming upon a milestone point in his school experience.

J-12 will be starting Jr. high and he will be doing it in an unusual way. He will be starting up in a “Virtual Academy” (check out video clip about Virtual Academies from a CA News station – http://tinyurl.com/668wld ) It sounds like it will be a lot of work but I am excited about the opportunity to be directly involved with Jonathan’s eduation and more than that… he seems to respond well to self paced education. We will be watching to see how it goes.

T-8 is starting the very important 3rd grade. This is where he will learn multiplication, etc. and it seems like there is a real change that happens in 3rd grade in the kids (It happened with J-12) It should be interesting and scary at the same time. He is also facing some personal challenges that we can’t directly help him with that he will have to deal with at school. We are praying very hard that he comes out of the semester well.

C-5 starts Kindergarten this August. It is hard to believe. It seemed like just yesterday she joined our family. She is a little bit anxious but we just found out today that she will be having the same teacher as J-12 had and this made her jump for joy! It’s cool to see how excited she is about school.