We are still using MFW and loving it. My oldest is now in 1st grade. He is doing so good. I love how the phonic is set up. R is in K now. He is doing good. He is only doing the reading plan and math because he is tagging along with his brother for the rest. He also did a lot of it last year so it seemed silly to repeat it. This is our 2nd year of homeschooling and we are still loving it. Seeing them learning is so much fun.
This year while it seems to be a little easier than last (because I know more about what I'm doing) but it has it's own challenges. Having a 4 and a 2 year old also makes life interesting. My 4 year old tries to join in where he can most days, but there is still a lot of time where he can't be involved. I fill his time with learning games/toys. (ex.. sorting colors, counting, building with blocks, coloring, puzzles, and anything else that I can find) I do the same for my 2 year old. Only she gets bored with the games/toys faster. Her favorite right now is Color me a song by Crayola. I found it right after Christmas for $10 and it was well worth the money. She also loves links. She puts them in cups then dumps them out. She made a necklace out of some the other day. These are the little links made for sorting and patterns not the bigger links made for baby toys.
We moved a few months ago. While it was not easy to move and keep up with normal life it was so worth it. We now have a school room!!! It is so nice to have a room to keep everything in. Having to put it where it would fit was getting old really fast. Now everything is together. No more hunting for things :)
Being a new year I have decided that this year I need to do a little more for myself.... So I am trying my hardest to pick up reading again. I used to love to read but with 4 kids so close together I got out of it for a while. Right now I am reading Lessons I learned int he Dark by Jennifer Rothschild. So far I am really enjoying it.
