
It's hard to believe that it's been 6 1/2 months. Sometimes it seems like just yesterday that we were standing in the rain out in the soccer field and I received that agonizing phone call, and other times it seems like forever ago. Either way . . . it happened.
I know it's been a while since I took the time to update my blog on us. I've been keeping pretty busy. As soon as we got back from Mexico, Abby started public school. She is in 3rd grade and seems to be adjusting well. She has a lot of friends due to having gone to preschool when she was younger and playing a lot of soccer with girls from the school. She was quite the excitement her first few days at the school! She has been doing very well also. She is an amazing reader, and almost always has a book in her hand! Even when we are watching a movie on the couch, she'll usually have a book with her just in case the movie gets not as exciting as her book! I'm happy that she enjoys reading so much! I always wanted to have a reader!
While I am talking about Abby, I guess I should just update on each of the kids. Abby was doing piano lessons for two years through the MP3, which is a homeschool extension of the public school that the government funds and volunteers help teach classes for homeschool kids. They end up with about 7 - 8 kids in each class, which is nice. Abby had been taking classes there as well as piano. When she started to school, she had to drop the piano lessons for now. We'll pick them back up this summer if we can. She does quite well! I love listening to her play! Although now that she's enjoying reading like she is, she doesn't play piano as much when she's bored. We need to work on that. I don't want her to forget. And when we went to watch the LDS Idaho Symphony play at church a few weeks ago, Abby said, "Would you get mad if I asked to stop playing the piano? I wanna learn the violin." I said to her, "You don't have to give up the piano to play the violin." So we found her an inexpensive kids size violin and she will start lessons with that soon. She is quite excited! Me too, I have to say! So Abby keeps pretty busy between school and reading . . she also is still active in soccer. It's good for her, and the sweet people at Meridian Soccer has sponsored Abby so that she is able to play without financial strains on my end! The community has been so great to us!
Kyleigh was doing online schooling but struggled to catch back up after Travis' passing and our trip to Mexico (not that she didn't have internet hook up at the hotel, but . . . she was on vacation!). So she finished the first semester online and now is schooling strictly at home with the books we've gotten for her to independently work at home. I think it will be great for her this second semester! And she can finish when she is done, even if it goes into summer. It's her own schedule. She still has her horses, Flyer and Holli, which she will be starting back up on lessons with Holli hopefully next week to get her ready to attempt qualifying for the fair this year. We are not sure about that working out since the lessons haven't been really affordable and time has not been great either. We'll get there. It's important to me for her to still have that, as it is good responsibility for her and keeps her active. Plus . . her dad bought her those horses.
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