Yearly Archives: 2006

We started a new read aloud book yesterday. The House of Sixty Fathers is about China in the late 1930′s shortly after Japan invaded. A young boy gets separated from his family and must find his way back to them … Continue reading →

You know, it’s hard to write about stuff when DAD covers everything there is to know about everything so I think I’m just going to talk about school. I’m studying World History, just out of the French and American Revolutions. … Continue reading →

Grandpa Lauro and Grandma Conchita will be here in just under three weeks. The whole family is excited for them to be here. School is out for Lorena after today for over a month. Many in the neighborhood have put … Continue reading →

Here is the letter Kelly received yesterday from the VFW.  She wrote a wonderful essay on “Citizenship” that she will read at the next meeting.  Her essay will now go on to the regional contest.

We have a bridal shower and a marriage reception tonight. Kelly has a piano festival in Salem and Christian is scheduled to solicit cans for a cub scout Christmas food drive on Saturday. Of course, we have a couple of … Continue reading →

When our worker Kent Williston was staying at our house a couple of months ago he showed us a really cool newsletter made by these kids in Arizona. It was called the R Desert Times. We showed him our Kaktus … Continue reading →

Kelly and I had a great discussion yesterday about change while Lorena and Christian were off at their cub scout meeting. I remember when I was young that I was often sad that time was passing so quickly. I was … Continue reading →

Lorena and I both generally drink a cola drink every day. Lorena drinks regular Coke and I drink Caffeine Free Diet Coke.  As I was driving in to work this morning, I heard a commentary about cola drinks. It seems … Continue reading →

Literally EVERYONE showed up for our Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday.  It was ball, but we were running HARD for three days to make it all happen and then to clean up afterwards.  This is really the first time we used … Continue reading →

The FreshMeat website features a list of newly released, open source software.  I periodically browse through the site to see if there is anything new and interesting.  Earlier today, I found a link to a piece of software named Notalon.  … Continue reading →

It’s wonderful!  It’s terrific! It’s spectacular!  It’s astounding!  94.5 FM already has Christmas songs!  ‘Tis the season!  Hurrah!  Have a wonderful day and don’t forget to turn on the radio for great classic Christmas songs!  Boy this just about made … Continue reading →

Christian and I cannot wait for Thanksgiving (even though this is probably the third time we have cleaned up the bonus room). We are making special little books for our cousins. These books are traditions now. This is Julia’s third … Continue reading →

I found a couple of very interesting articles yesterday. They pretty much speak for themselves. The first one, I found in an article by J.P. Holding responding to a silly, but widely read little book titled Letter to a Christian … Continue reading →

Homeschool day 62 of 180 Government school day 51 of 170 We are having around 25 people over for Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday. Lorena is working really hard and has done a stellar job of getting ready (Thank goodness for … Continue reading →

On Friday I went to a little sleepover at my friend Skyler’s house.  It was… interesting, but I had fun.  I brought my special hair book and we all went into the living room to do hair.  We were talking … Continue reading →

Yesterday night we went to the pool for another day of swim team practice. I was doing all right (though a little bit slow) nearly the whole time but then we came to the diving practice. You all know that … Continue reading →

Homeschool day 60 of 180 (One third of the way done. WOO-HOO!) Government school day 49 of 170 We are going to have the family Thanksgiving at our house this year. There will be lots of aunts, uncles, cousins, and … Continue reading →