I just read your original post and felt your pain. Some days, months, years are harder than others, but if you had not been homeschooling you would not have been able to do all of those things you did. I have a homeschooler friend with 10 children 2-23. I remember one day I had asked her if she could watch my kids so I could work, but she had other things that needed to be done. Her reply was that if she couldn't teach her children that is was important to help other people she wasn't teaching them at all. That's always stuck with me. Have you tried Classical Conversations? We were introduced to it a couple of years ago and it has really helped us to keep our focus. As long as they were learning the memory work, they were learning something in every subject. The history is to a song, there are songs on youtube for the science memory work. If you look it up you will find that they say you have to go to a class to do it, but not the foundations part. All you need is the Memory work CD. I have compiled written pages for each week of work so the kids have it on paper as well as listening to the memory work. If it is something you are interested in I would be glad to share my files. Praying for your endurance. Hang in there!

Those look good, I also found history and more science books by the same people. I just ordered them on amazon. Thanks!

They aren't chapter books, but have you looked at the five in a row books? I loved using them with mine when they were young. The books are great and I especially loved them for geography. You read the same book 5 days in a row, each day focusing on a different "subject". I always did geography the first day and then they would put the story disc on the map every day wherever it was to go for that book. As we added books they would put all the discs on every day. Soon, I learned where places where that I didn't even know. My 2 year old knew where New Zealand was because she knew where the disc went for that one. Later after we figured out to do it, I added my own books and just looked for the thinks I could teach them in the books.

We used Saxon at first and one of my daughters hated math so I ended up swapping to MUS. We loved MUS. I have a friend who has 10 children and is a wealth of information. She uses MUS in the beginning, and then moves to Saxon around 4/5 and still throws in MUS here and there depending on the kid. MUS teaches things Saxon doesn't in the earlier years and vice versa in the older years. One thing that may help is to use the older version of MUS. It is not based on grade. It is the same stuff, but not laid out into a grade. They just do a concept until they get it. One of my daughters might do one lesson once, where another may do it for 2 weeks. There isn't the burden of feeling like you are in a lower grade than you are "supposed" to be. But then if something is boring because she gets it, just move on to the next lesson.

We use the audio of the Story of the World for whatever the history sentence is. We might pull books out of our stash or the library to read that go along with that topic for the week. We love CC. We did it with a group last year and the first semester this year. Then the group dissolved but we continued on our own with it. Youtube is a great resource for CC. There is usually a group who puts the science memory work to song and sometimes the English and puts it on youtube. I have girls and they learn really well to song, so we get a lot from that.

Does she like to listen to thinks on CD? My kids love to listen to the stories on CD, but don't always enjoy it in person.

I have a 6 year old who loves hand on stuff and LOVES to cook. I was looking for a curriculum that uses cooking to teach. Not just how to cook, but how to use cooking to teach other things. I found one thing that looked good, it was called Homeschool Cooking in a Box by Laura Bankston. But everytime a found a link to look at it it wasn't the curriculum. I've searched and found 7 articles that this woman wrote and I like her a lot. All of the articles were written in 2004. Does anyone know where to find this curriculum, or alternatively, know of any other curriculum like that?