Monthly Archives: September 2006

Homeschool day 25 of 180 We have what will be about four more years of homeschool with our daughter Kelly and six more years with our son Christian. We very much enjoy our homeschool and the extra time we get … Continue reading →

Homeschool day 24 of 180 Yesterday afternoon, before we went to our Wednesday evening bible study, Kelly wrote something in preparation for her book. It was very, very good. We have talked about how J.R.R. Tolkien spent many years preparing … Continue reading →

Homeschool day 23 of 180 Learning math can be quite difficult. Lorena, Kelly, and Christian are all taking difficult math classes right now. We are learning that it is best to work on such things while one is fresh. We … Continue reading →

Homeschool day 22 of 180 As Kelly noted yesterday (Please notice the prepositional phrase with which I start this post!), Lorena started her calculus class and Kelly and Christian started their swimming classes yesterday. Then, after she got home from … Continue reading →

Homeschool day 21 of 180 We finally had Christian’s birthday party on Friday evening. We started out by meeting Grandpa Milo, Grandma Sarah, and Aunt Jean at the Burgerville where Cousin Kylee works for dinner. Afterwards, we went over to … Continue reading →

I do not have much time to write this morning but today we start swimming lessons and Mom starts calculus.  I can’t wait but we will have to work hard and get things done quickly if we want to do … Continue reading →

Homeschool day 20 of 180 I had quite an interesting experience with Kelly and Christian yesterday evening. Christian is currently working on the last two books we are planning to use from Singapore Math. The concepts are pretty difficult to … Continue reading →

I have nothing to write about. I just wanted to try out this new “preformancing”thing dad got us. It lets us write posts without having to fumble around with the website. It has a lot of new features: Strikethrough, Quotes … Continue reading →

Homeschool day 19 of 180 Sometimes people ask us what we do in our homeschool. Most of the time they are just curious or being polite. Of course we do the math, grammar, writing, science, history, spelling, Spanish, and cover … Continue reading →

Homeschool day 18 of 180 I love to write vision, robotics, and statistical process control programs in C++. I honestly believe that one of the great successes of Microsoft was that they have always provided a way for programmers to … Continue reading →

Yesterday I went to piano lessons and my teacher, Mrs. Hickenlooper, helped me with the hymns that I am trying to learn. She also gave me a new piece instead of my Bach piece. The Bach piece was too difficult … Continue reading →

Homeschool day 17 of 180 One of the things we got for Christian on his eleventh birthday was a subscription to a set of tutorials to learn C# programming. He is doing the tutorials for twenty minutes per day as … Continue reading →

I don’t know what to write about but I have to get back to work anyway because I have lots of schoolwork to do and I didn’t get an awesome start so I will probably write more later, I hope … Continue reading →

Homeschool day 16 of 180 I spent yesterday afternoon scanning photos into the computer. We have about thrity rolls of film that are anywhere between five and ten years old. Lorena developed the first eight last week and will develop … Continue reading →

Homeschool day 15 of 180 If the last couple of days are any indication, Kelly is going to make this blog MUCH more interesting than it has been when I was doing most of the writing. Mostly, I have been … Continue reading →

I was reading the Bible this morning and I turned to John 19 and started reading. I read through the rest of John because it was so good. I never really read any books of the Bible thoroughly save Matthew … Continue reading →

That article that I read yesterday got me thinking. One of them started when he was 13 and they all talk about deep, debatable subjects. I wonder what I can talk about that is deep and debatable. Perchance you would … Continue reading →

Homeschool day 14 of 180 When I was growing up, the only venue available for aspiring writers was the print media: books, magazines, newspapers, etc. Now there is the web. The amazing thing is that, if you write well and … Continue reading →

Homeschool is going well. We’ve gotten into the full swing of things here and I’m reading some great books. We met some new neighbors the other day and we hope to meet many more now that we are seeing so … Continue reading →

Homeschool day 13 of 180 Giving blood is a very satisfying thing.  The people who gather to give always seem to be in a great mood and you get to wear a sticker for the rest of the day telling … Continue reading →