I bought the deluxe set of Hooked on Phonics. It was $80 or so on ebay for grades K-2. Not bad I thought and I am really happy with it!

If you homeschool, this is absolutly the reading program to get. The deluxe system has more books for reading and the workbook is the most vital part.  I haven’t even used the cd/audio parts, I do these with the kids and just say the sounds for them.

It really is a great product, and if you want to look at purchasing one, email me and I will send you the username of the lady I got mine from, it is the older version but more than half the price of the new one.  Totally a great buy!

They also have an infant version and a toddler version.  I am of two minds about this. First I do not usually do any school stuff with the little ones. I figure they have plenty of years of school. However, kids like William do not need to learn letters and stuff so much as they need to learn to sit.  To be quiet. To listen and follow directions.

He and Julianna want to do school work like the big kids, but don’t have the ability to keep up obviously. So I am thinking about getting these for them, as a way to practice sitting, following directions and such. William already knows the letters, B, D and W.  lol.  He learned those on his own at some point.

Vincent is doing well, I am pretty tired still.  I am going to try and take some current pictures of all the kids and maybe do a post on each kid, talking about how they are, and what they do.

I have been spinning alpaca and I love this fiber. I want to blend some with some beautiful lamb fleece I have in a bag. My fleeces were so beautiful this year!