I AM SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HAPPY!!!!!!!! :)

I almost feel like I won the lottery today!!  I've been going through the process of enrolling Isabella and Olivia at Sky Mountain charter school and I met my Education Specialist (ES) today.  She was so wonderful, I feel like I've made a friend for life. :)  I had told myself I would only do it if I liked her.  Well I do!!!!!  A LOT!!!!!  We met over the phone last week and we hit it off right away.  We also discovered that we both graduated from the same high school only a year apart.  We didn't know each other before, but today we recognized each other and found out we had many mutual friends.  The best part is that we share almost identical education/home school/family raising philosophies.  She is home schooling her children--and she has FOUR daughters! :)

WHAT A BLESSING!!   :)  She is wonderful.

I am so excited about Sky Mountain!  They will purchase my curriculum and art/craft supplies. They will also pay for some art and gymnastics classes!!  (Kinda nice to get back some of our tax dollars!) I spent so much money on these things last year.  Bella will need to do some government testing, but only 3 times the whole year.  All I have to do is meet with my ES monthly to show her how we're meeting the California standards.  

I plan to use Live Education,which is a Waldorf based curriculum.  I get to buy art and craft supplies from A child's dream come true, Mercurius, and Paper, Scissors, Stone.  I will also get to put the girls in an art class at the Armory Center for the Arts and then gymnastics at Payke! I have totally scored, I'm sooooo happy!!  Now I just have to figure out what great art supplies I want to order.  This is going to be a GREAT school year.

**UPDATE** I failed to mention that I've been using "A little garden flower" Waldorf curriculum designed by my friend Melisa Nielson and will continue to do so along with the Live Education. Melisa helps put it all together!!




These are pictures that Bella and Olivia drew for our ES. She asked me to have them do them for her visit. Can you see they're drawings of our tent and campsite from our trip?? So cute!!