Monthly Archives: October 2004

Tonight there will be a bunch of folks from meeting coming over to our house for a potluck. Everyone with kids about the same age as ours will be at our house to just eat, sing some hymns, and hang … Continue reading →

The day after we put up a picture of Lauro and Dayana, a picture of their daughter Dayanita shows up on the web. It is a picture of her and her parrot put up by Lauro. It is such a … Continue reading →

Our sister-in-law Minita sent us a photo of Lorena’s brother, Lauro and his wife, Dayana. Lauro and Dayana are the ones who are going skiing with us and the Rizo family at the end of February. The carne asada was … Continue reading →

Lorena found that she had passed the test she took on Monday, but she also found that she has four more test instead of three. She has to take what is called a proficiency test on Thursday of next week … Continue reading →

Lorena took her test yesterday afternoon and feels pretty good about the results. Other than that it was a pretty normal day. We finished Henry Price’s Journey a couple of days ago so last night we started reading Henry Price’s … Continue reading →

We went over to the Doolittle’s house on Friday evening for a crab feed. Mike had been out with the family and some other friends and came back with a more crab than we could all eat. It was an … Continue reading →

Well, Lorena ALMOST passed the test. She will have to take it one more time on Monday afternoon. Everything is going swimmingly well right now with the kids getting more and more efficient in doing their homework, Lorena studying hard, … Continue reading →

Lorena is going to retake her Algebra test today. She has been studying very hard. The kids have been studying hard, too. They are getting more organized in their work and they are leaving their work in a state that … Continue reading →

Lorena will have to take her first algebra test again on Friday. She did not quite get a high enough score, so the the good news is that she CAN take it again. The teacher was very optimistic about it. … Continue reading →

Lorena took her first test for Intermediate Algebra last night and we think she did well. Only two more and she is home free. Lorena dropped the kids off at their gymnastics class in the afternoon at about 4:00 and … Continue reading →

We had a very nice day on Saturday to work outside. Lorena worked a lot harder out there than did I. She accomplished a lot, too. She was able to get plant three new azalea plants, put down some plastic, … Continue reading →

Lorena had to have our neighbor Hank help her start the car twice because of the lights that were left on night before last. That made the day a little unpredictable, but the kids got most of their work finished. … Continue reading →

When I got home last night the kids had all there work done and organized on their individual tables. I was able to jump in and get all of Kelly’s stuff corrected in record time. Christian’s took a little longer, … Continue reading →

We had quite a slow day yesterday. The kids did not have much of either their school work nor house work finished when I got home. We had a talk and I will check tonight whether or not we are … Continue reading →

Kelly got a stomach ache in her gymnastics class and had to quit about half way through, the kids played outside after I got home for a little bit before we jumped into our home school work. Lorena made a … Continue reading →

Sunday was Lorena’s and my anniversary. We have been married for twelve years. On Saturday, we ran up to Grandpa Milo and Grandma Sarah’s house to shoot off Christian’s rocket, but we forgot the launching rail back home in Albany, … Continue reading →

Tonight is the presidential debate between President Bush and John Kerry. Kelly and the kids and I will probably listen to that together. Tomorrow we are going to go to Newberg to shoot off the rocket Christian got for his … Continue reading →

A couple of good things happened yesterday. First of all, we have our system worked out well enough now that I switched over to generating the daily schedule via OpenOffice.org on the Linux computer. Secondly, we found out that rather … Continue reading →

Last night, the kids and I listened to the Vice Presidential debate between Dick Cheney and Jon Edwards. Kelly and I were the ones most interested in it. Christian worked on putting the finishing touches on his first model. It … Continue reading →

Yesterday I found a writing program that sounds like it will be just perfect for the kids. The book comes from a larger program called the Wordsmith Series. The first book in the series is called Wordsmith Apprentice. It is … Continue reading →