Brogan is now four days old and doing very well!  The Lord answered all my prayers: that he be under 10 lbs (close enough!), that he not be late, and that he nurse well!  God is so good!  I am just overwhelmed to have such a beautiful baby - what a special blessing he is!

All the children are enjoying him.  The twins have been very good and gentle with him, and have adjusted well to having other people help them with things besides Mama (before Brogan's birth, they often would not accept help from somebody else, and so I was a bit concerned about this.) 

Robert is busily getting ready to leave for college in just under two weeks.  The girls have a few weeks before their dance classes start again.  I have decided not to go back to the charter school to teach, and am working on our homeschooling plans for the coming year.  I intend to blog each week about what we plan to do and actually do.  I am thinking about starting the first week in September with some subjects and then adding the rest in the following week.

I am not sure where I stand with speaking German to my children.  I recognize that for right now, I don't want to speak German to Brogan - it just does not feel right.  And I am really tired and having difficulty speaking it, and also had been feeling ambivalent about speaking only German with the twins over the last few weeks.  I haven't spent much time with the twins since the birth, but it has really felt like overload to be speaking English with one of the older children, then switch to German to say something to one of the twins, then switch to English to talk to Brogan.  I just. can't. do. it. right. now.  So, I will be thinking about this over the next few weeks and coming up with some sort of game plan, but I am thinking that it will not involve 100% German use with any of the children.

As for work/teaching related topics, I don't really know.  While my husband and I were discussing the charter school issue this week, he said he wanted me to meet my goals, and I replied that I didn't know what those were anymore.  So he said, "Maybe you need to figure that out."  I think that I got a lot of good experience the last year or so, and because of Brogan's birth, I now have an opportunity to sit back and reflect on what I really need to do, want to do, and should do to help our family move forward.  Right now, it's obvious that helping my family means me staying home, whereas last year, it was obvious that it meant me working.

I will post a picture of Brogan tomorrow - I need Robert to teach me how to do it since he will soon be gone to college and not able to do it for me anymore!  He really is the most adorable baby!