Monthly Archives: February 2009

Last night, our little friend, Jenna from next door came over and spent the afternoon with Lorena and the kids.  She went to Christian’s guitar lesson and the YMCA with them.  When they got home, Kelly was supposed to dissect … Continue reading →

Tonight, the kids and I are going to work on homeschool math catch-up and the ham radio.  Hopefully we will have a picture of the radio in its case by tomorrow.

Making the world a better place. That was the gist of Dad’s epiphany last night, and it sort of goes hand in hand with the whole narcissism thing.  We’re not here to help out ourselves! We’re here to help out … Continue reading →

When I got onto the blog this morning, I noticed that I had a couple of hits from a Sonlight blog.  I was a little skeptical about a comment we had received from, Luke Holzmann, the author of the blog, … Continue reading →

We are big fans of the Sonlight curricula.  Last year, Kelly studied their US History.  Of course, the literature books were fabulous as usual, but we struggled mightily with their choice of Joy Hakim’s A History of the USA.  Sonlight … Continue reading →

MOM FOUND MY KNITTING!!!! I’d been looking for it for the longest time! The half-finished scarf was stowed away in a plastic bag in a drawer somewhere, but the important thing is that she found it!!  I was totally blah … Continue reading →

We had a wonderful weekend.  As is usual on Fridays, we had our family night together at home, complete with pizza and clever repartee.  I wrote a previous post about how the hard drive on our Linux/Homeschool computer went bad, … Continue reading →

We had a ton of stuff we wanted to do today, but the hard drive on our Linux computer went bad.  We had almost everything backed up, but I decided we ought to take this opportunity to get out backup … Continue reading →

A couple of days ago I finally finished Teaching Textbooks Geometry, and finally started Teaching Textbooks Pre-Calculus.  Phew!  Normally, I would not be jumping-up-and-down-excited over starting a new math book, but this time it was different.  All I can say … Continue reading →

Well, the waiting is over sooner than expected.  I checked the ACT website for Kelly’s scores yesterday afternoon.  All her scores were there except the writing score.  I tried to get Christian’s scores from the web, too, but did not … Continue reading →

I think I have finally gotten the web theme to the point where it is not completely embarrassing.  Troy helped me find a bug last night that I think I fixed this morning.  I want to make more changes, but … Continue reading →

Being yourself is more easily said (or typed) than done.  I always believed that I was pretty good at being myself.  Or maybe I deluded myself into believing that I was pretty good at being myself.  Either way, being ‘me’ … Continue reading →

After the frustration of the superficial coverage provided by Sound and Look Professional on TV and the Internet, we are quite happy to report that a book by one of the collaborators on that book appears very promising. The name … Continue reading →

Last night we settled in to read aloud for a half an hour or so in the usual way.  Kelly, Christian, and I sit on the big sofa to the side of the fireplace in the kitchen.  Kelly inks a … Continue reading →

Random story up ahead! : Every Tuesday morning we go to my piano teacher’s house. It’s way up high on a very steep hill. I have no clue how they got it up there.  But every week mom pushes the … Continue reading →

I am amazed that we did most of the stuff on our list this weekend.  Lorena shopped at Costco after we had breakfast at Mcdonalds on Saturday morning.  We went to Borders and looked for a book on how to … Continue reading →

We have a very full weekend ahead of us.  We LOVE to spend Friday nights together as a family just to hang out.  We plan to do that.  Then on Saturday we have a lot of things to accomplish: Go … Continue reading →

Last night we started reading the book Sound and Look Professional on TV and the Internet. It seems like it might have a lot of interesting information in it, but I suspect that it was not written for rocket scientist. … Continue reading →

i hope no one gets offended by this… It’s all in fun. Which Chapman are YOU? Created by Kelly and Christian Chapman Inspired by Kylee (our cousin) Family picture When getting ready to go to an event, you can be … Continue reading →

About the same time Kelly started drawing her daily comic strip, Christian started work on a Betty Blonde graphic novel.  He filled an entire sketch book with his story, but it was pretty rough in terms of how it was … Continue reading →