Monthly Archives: January 2008

We currently have some major homeschool projects we want to start. The radio construction and theory project The new world view study material Setting the kids up to Roth-IRA mutual fund investing Starting Rosetta Stone II Spanish Find a gym … Continue reading →

Last night, we spent most of the night working on math.  There are two ways to use the Teaching Textbooks to go through a lesson.  It is possible to just read the material in the book or to listen to … Continue reading →

When we got here to North Carolina we met a family who had moved out here (via several other places) from Washington (state).  We knew a lot of the same people because all of our families have lived in the … Continue reading →

I put crafts in the title of this post because that is what the kids did during a lot of the weekend.  Christian spent a lot of time working on a model of a Spitfire airplane while Kelly continued to … Continue reading →

Lately, I have been trying think about how we can get some of our projects completed.  Our half-finished cat tower is still over at the rental house.  This weekend, Christian and I plan to load it into the pickup and … Continue reading →

Kelly has a piano competition coming up in the next month or so.  The work she does in preparing for the competition is repetitive.  She is also in the process of finishing up here first year of Spanish on Rosetta … Continue reading →

The buzz around the Chapman household over the last few days has centered on Grandma Conchita’s new refrigerator.  Tio Jorge and I have been conspiring to replace their very small, very nasty refrigerator that barely kept things below room temperature … Continue reading →

Because of our common interests, my buddy and fellow Mexico fan, Mark Bullick has recommended that I read The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (DFRE) by Edward Gibbon.  I think I mentioned earlier that he gave me a … Continue reading →

I have a lot on my plate for the next couple of days to get caught back up after being off on vacation for a week.  Thanks to all for the birthday wishes for Lorena.  We had a great little … Continue reading →

I am at a mall in Puerto Vallarta connected to an ad hoc network.  We are having a great time.  Lorena’s birthday party was a great success last night.  Minita had all kinds of decorations and a cake.  Grandpa Milo … Continue reading →

The whole family ran down to the Barnes and Noble bookstore last weekend to buy books to read on our trip to and from Mexico.  Aunt Julia had given Kelly and Christian $15 gift cards that were burning a hole … Continue reading →

We are in the process of trying to determine whether it makes sense for the kids to take some CLEP tests to get her some credit at our local community college.  She took a preliminary practice test for Freshman College … Continue reading →

We are enjoying our new house.  It is bigger than our rental and even a little bigger than our previous house in Albany.  More than that, though, it is laid out very, very well for the way we live.  The … Continue reading →

Yesterday was Kelly’s first day of studying for the Freshman College Composition test of the College-Level Examination Program (CLEP).  She read the introductory chapter yesterday.  Tomorrow, she will take the first sample test to determine where she is and identify … Continue reading →

Christian loves his PDA, but in a year or two he might want this:  OpenMoko FreeRunner: a win for phone freedom  It looks pretty good to me!

We met some of our new neighbors yesterday afternoon.  They seemed like very nice people.  We met members of three families:  one from New York, one from New Jersey, and one from Connecticut.  The situation is similar at my work.  … Continue reading →

Last night I drove home to our new house for the first time.  It was about a 35 minute drive.  Not bad.  I was expecting worse.  I think I can actually get the drive down to thirty minutes when I … Continue reading →

We finished the year 2007 well.  So far we have completed the first 16½ weeks of the 36 week school year.  During the holiday break we evaluated what we are doing and decided to make some changes.  Of course we … Continue reading →

We had a great day on our last day of New Year’s vacation yesterday.  We used the pickup and the minivan to move about half of our stuff from the rental house to the new one over the last four … Continue reading →