Hi! I'm Amy. We have 4 boys, ages 15, 13, 10, 3 (almost 4).
My oldest ds will be in 10th grade doing WHL, Jacobs geometry, and Apologia Chemistry, and foreign language. He will be doing an online chemistry class this year. This will be our first experience with an online class. I am learning lots with my firstborn. He is our first to homeschool high school. He is our first to get his permit and prepare for a driver's license. Poor thing! He thinks he has it hard! He tells his 3 y/o brother quite often how easy he is going to have it! And I am sure he is right!

But I couldn't have asked for a better firstborn to pave the way! He is our avid outdoorsman and adventurer.
We will be cycling back through ECC this year with my other 3 children (with the 3 y/o obviously just tagging along). I will have an 8th grader and a 4th/5th grader doing it.
My 8th grader is easy-going (most all the time). He loves old westerns (thanks to his father), sports, playing and watching. He is a reader/studier. He has a sweet spirit. In addition to ECC with the 7th/8th grade supplement, he will be doing Apologia Physical Science, grammar, progeny press guides, and Alg 1, which he is nervous about.
My third child is the 4th/5th grader. I did start him with K the Aug after he turned 5 in July. Had he been in ps I would not have put him in school but wanted to ease into it and see how he did. We spread 1st over 2 years. In retrospect I wished I would have waited another year in starting school with him. He has struggled even when I remediated everything and began again. We have not gotten an official diagnosis, but believe there are LDs, ADD being one of them. We have gotten some help from a wonderful lady in our school district, and he has made great strides this past year in reading. He has continued to read through the summer, and I am having him read out loud to me as well as silently to himself. He is like a totally different child in his reading today as compared to even 3 months ago. 6 months ago I wouldn't have been able to make him pick up a book. This summer I haven't been able to keep one out of his hands. I have dreamt of the day I would see this. His brothers are avid readers, and I wanted him to love to read as well. I am so proud of him for working so hard! He has shown improvement in math as well. We have worked so hard, but the rewards are worth it! I learn lots from this child as well. He is a social child and loves people. He is always thinking about others and what kinds of gifts he can give others. Sometimes its just a unique rock he finds, but he is looking for someone to give it to.
My 3 y/o is, well, a pure joy. He is our late in life baby, and he is our BABY in every sense of the world. He is much loved and some people would call him spoiled, but how can you not be with 2 parents and 3 older brothers at your beck and call!

His vocabulary has really blown me away. I said I WOULD NOT push and rush him, especially after my experiences with my other boys. His birthday misses the "school" cutoff here by one day. I guess I will have to just see how things progress, but I am going to try to be very cautious in not rushing him. I am also learning how fast the days go by, and I miss the other boys' "little days". I am trying to savor every day with all of my boys!
All of my boys (including my dh) are scouters. My older two boys are ready to start their eagle projects. They are preparing to advance in the OA this weekend. My third born will be finishing his last year of cub scouts this next year (with his father as his leader), preparing to bridge over to boy scouts. They enjoy backpacking. My oldest ds had the opportunity to attend Philmont in New Mexico this summer, and he loved it. Hopefully, there will be other trips there in the future for all my boys, including my dh.
Well, that about sums it up!
Amy C.