Our Family

Thanks for dropping in! I’m Faith, and I constantly feel like I’m just beginning this homeschooling journey, although we’re finishing up our third official year (1st grade, then 4th and 5th, for our oldest). I figured I’d let you know a little bit about us.

I’m a SAHM with a background in history and psychology. I worked in human resources for years until I met Alan, fell in love, and got married 10 minutes later. I’m learning to knit, which is an education until itself.

Alan is currently a manager of a local community center, thus carrying on the family business of working with youth (his father ran a youth center until his retirement, his mom runs a Boy’s and Girl’s club, his sister is a teacher and his brother-in-law is the director of youth/community center). All that said, he’s also a Lutheran (LCMS) Pastor, and is what we lovingly refer to as “between congregations”.

Alexis is our oldest at 11. She’s very bright, but like a lot of preteens, isn’t terribly motivated. She was classified as gifted when she was younger, and I initally pulled her out of 1st grade because we were in a horrible school district. We moved that year, and she began 2nd grade in a better school, but then we moved again. We put her in a private Christian school, but during 3rd grade some serious discipline issues came forth, and she asked to come home again. I think she wants to go back to regular school, but I don’t see that happening anytime soon.

Michael is the oldest (by a minute) of our 3 year old twins. He’s a beautiful boy, very smart, very loving, and diagnosed with Autism (299.0 for those of you who keep track of such things). He is in numerous therapies, and we are going through the local school system for some of them. Because of his birth date, we will receive in-home services though them until the end of the 09-10 school year, so for right now, I’m okay with using them. I doubt we’ll continue on when they want him to start attending classes.

Molly is The Baby. She’s this curly-haired ball of personality that just never stops. She’s sweet, loving, smart as a whip, and soooo very hard headed. It’s been a hoot watching her personality develop, as she so very different from both Alexis and Michael. She was named after a curly-haired fireball of personality, so I guess we should have known what to expect! Of course, everyone says she “needs” to be a classroom, because she’s such a social person, and needs her “peers”… so which I laugh, or smile and nod, as I’m really, really tired of confrontation.

So, that’s us. Right now, we live near the Gulf Coast (pray for us come hurricane season!), but that could change at any point should Alan receive a call back into a specific church (right now, he is on what the LCMS calls CRM, or candidate, status, and does supply pulpit all over the region). Feel free to say hi!