Home school Convention 2008, my turn

Well, Saturday was my day to go check it out. We joined the state association which included entrance to the convention. What a blessing to have it 15 minutes from my house at the Marriott Woodlands! I went to two seminars over language arts. The first was by former home school mom, Rosie Watson, a very intelligent woman who has the gift of writing. She developed a creative writing program which uses award winning books to develop a child's love and gift of writing. She also speaks for Total Language Plus curricula which is for 4th-high school. Although a little advanced for our ages, we did purchase her creative writing kit.
The second seminar was by Janet Hulcy, the co-author of KONOS curricula. She has four grown sons she taught. She is a brash, entertaining woman. She believes in visuals and hands on experiences. I could see using KONOS for Ethan in the future. I then toured the exhibit hall looking for the different booths for the materials we had determined to purchase. I saw my friend, Corinne and her daughter Katherine there as well. She is a distributor for Usbourne books and had a booth at the convention. She said sales were good. With science, history, and math picked out and purchased, I left with a feeling of accomplishment but overwhelmed with the task before me. I am so thankful Albert has agreed to partner with me on this. I would have surely thrown in the towel by now. I returned home and he reassured me we were going to be blessed by this experience. I know that but my fears forget easily. Keep me in your prayers this week as I prepare the lesson plans.