Sunday morning!

Just found the dog in the chicken enclosure again! The commotion outside is always a give away - there is a certain squawking the chickens make when being chased by the dog. I stood guard at the back door trying to yell at the dog in as quiet a way as possible in hope that the neighbours won't be disturbed but I'm guessing if we could hear the noise then they could too. If we disappear in the house to get our shoes the dog just goes back to chasing and rounding them up again and Hugo is a collie so rounding up everyone and everything is just in his genes and is his favourite thing ever along with his favourite toy - a big black bucket. Andi reluctantly got up and went out to retrieve Hugo and forgot to close the porch door so we now have muddy paw prints through the hall and in to the lounge - what a start to Sunday morning.

Home schooling is very much on my mind this morning as we are planning a week of past exam papers. Although we are only 9 months in to the IGCSEs we have covered an awful lot of the course already. You see an hour  home schooling is very much different to an hour in class at school. With no distractions you really do get alot done. CJ knows there will be questions he can't answer but after going through a maths paper recently he found it encouraging to see just how much he could do but also found it helpful to get used to the style of questions he will meet in his exams next year.

RJ has A level exams next month and so revision and study is very much what is going on in our home. Home schooling during the day and revising in the evenings and at weekends. RJ has a great offer at a good university near our home but 2 A's and a B are high grades to get. 

After all of the studying so far I have been inspired to go back to studying myself. I am now registered for my degree that starts in October. Through helping RJ I have come to love Environmental Studies and although the next home schooling year will be the most important one I know I will find time for my own studies too. In just three years CJ could be gone off to uni so it will mean I will be finishing my degree and who knows what I could do after the children have flown the nest.