Term 2 ~ already through?

As we came to the end of another week a few weeks ago, I realized how quickly we were approaching the conclusion of our second term using AO. This has been a term of transition. Several transitions have happened.

~ a new home
~ friends
~ church family
~ support groups and co-ops
~ Peter Rabbit moving to a big boy bed
~ getting older in school - some readings alone, Flopsy beginning "kindergarten"
~ and a whole new schedule for the entire family (actually several different trails of schedules!)

This term we have learned about birds (as good as I could make it happen. For a few weeks, we were between homes and traveling to homes of different family. For our bird unit, I just don't feel as though we got enough out of it. But I am so thankful for the way AO works, that we can do things over if we need to, without falling truly behind.
The same has gone for composer study and picture study. I'll have to figure out how to do those better.

Some things in the works to make AO a better experience (from an already fantastic experience) for us all:

~do more reading ahead (by about a week)
~plan now for extras
~find out about wildflowers ahead of time (that is our next nature study unit)
~perhaps read more of the HNS (handbook of nature study)
~read more of CM's works and books about her
~try to find a group who would like to read and discuss CM
~post more about our weekly happenings on this blog!

I must appologize. I have not kept up this blog as I thought I might, or rather as I had envisioned keeping it up. I had wanted to write nearly daily about our experiences and the things I have been learning. But there has just been too much going on!

I'd like to get some feedback (if there is enough out there that would be interested in doing this) on a few things:

~is there anyone who would like to have a CM book discussion through this blog?
~what sort of posts are most interesting to read? (nature study, a mom's thoughts, posts from children (perhaps their narrations?), fine arts studies, books we read, or your own ideas)
~do you want to see more pictures of things that we do?

Just rattling ideas for now...