Welcome to Our Home

Greetings, Dear Readers, and welcome to our little home on the internet. Let me show you around and introduce you to our family. Of course, this is only a brief introduction. You'll find out more as we go along.

Around the corner is the living room, where DaughterBaby keeps most of her toys and books. She's about a year and a half old, learning to talk, run, sing and climb, like most children her age. She is a shy one still, and quiet. For now.

In this first bed room downstairs, you'll find Son#2, age 12, and the pets: two Bearded Dragons and a Dekay's Brown Snake. Son#2 likes video games, biking, working out, and a challenge or race.

In the dining room find Daughter#2, age 10, drawing, colouring, paper folding, reading, or asking to do a craft. She and Son#2 are both in home school at the dining room table for now, and work together on home made projects and games.

 

In the kitchen is Dad, who enjoys cooking, and Mom, who cleans up and makes the side dishes. Dad preaches and teaches Bible classes, as well as the occasional English as a second language class, and enjoys photography and "iphoneography" in his spare time.  He's good at all of these things too. Mom teaches at home as well as in various Bible classes for kids, and she enjoys being in Bible studies with other ladies.

Upstairs in his own room which doubles as a guest room is Son#1, who is 16 and taking online high school courses, though he would dearly love to have a part time job and his driver's license already. The lizards downstairs are his, and they usually sit with him while he plays Minecraft on the iPod or works on his iphotos.

Downstairs in the cool basement, or perhaps anywhere else in the house (even Mom and Dad's room at times) is Daughter#1, age 14 going on 30. She knows she's going to study early childhood development and work in child care before (and possibly after too) she marries and raises a family.

We have been a Maddocks Home School for as long as the children have been learning, and presently work with an internet high school to earn credits toward a diploma, and to study what nearly everyone else is studying in the province. It's okay (great summary, right?), and allows TeacherMom to be an assistant teacher with the older two children, so as not to lose her mind.


(photos on this page were all taken from the older children's iphoto collections)