Monthly Archives: January 2010

My diary is dead.  It was boring to write in, every entry felt really contrived and formulaic.  Instead of a diary I now keep a book of lists and plans and drawings and thoughts and ideas and stories and scribblings … Continue reading →

A congressman will visit our office tomorrow.  We have been tasked to clean everything up so it will be spotless for the high potentate and his aides-de-camp.  The purpose of the visit is to attract money (earmarks?) to help us … Continue reading →

Every once in a while, when a girl gets a little nostalgic, her thoughts turn to the green valleys of Oregon. I’ve been feeling a little nostalgic lately, thus my thoughts have been close to my home state. And since … Continue reading →

When the kids got text messaging this December, Christian decided he wanted to write a C++ program on his Linux computer to send and receive messages from his cellphone.  His initial idea was to text a Linux command from his … Continue reading →

On Saturday, Lorena mentioned that she thought Christian was getting taller.  For the last year or so we have been measuring Lorena, Kelly, and Christian against each other to see who is tallest.  For a long time it seemed like … Continue reading →

I updated the Betty Blonde About page with a few short bios. I’m hoping to make it better and more detailed later (maybe with some illustrations?) but this’ll do for now.  Christian’s been thinking about putting up a wiki for … Continue reading →

Christian, Kelly, and I have been thinking and talking about the Betty Blonde comic.  Kelly works hard to improve her skills.  She reads everything she can find about drawing, story, humor, and everything associated with the creative side of the … Continue reading →

Note: This post is one in a series on how we prepared our homeschooled children to take various College Level Examination Program tests. The introductory post for this series explains why we take these tests, what parts of the preparation … Continue reading →

We had overnight guests for the last couple of nights, so Kelly has had to find herself a quiet place wherever she can to study.  Lorena and the kids will take the trek back down to Johnston Community College to … Continue reading →

Well, we got pretty much caught up with homeschool this weekend.  It was not a wildly exciting weekend, because we spent almost all of our time working on homeschool.  Kelly worked on math and preparation for her upcoming Western Civilization … Continue reading →

Lorena got lots of greetings from lots of places on her birthday yesterday.  We spent a quiet evening, but plan to celebrate a little more this weekend.  This will be a working weekend for homeschool and our some of our … Continue reading →

You know what I’ve noticed? Messy buns are particularly hard to master. If I concentrate too hard while making them, I run the risk of ending up with one of three looks: ‘Neat and tidy bun that was supposed to … Continue reading →

Our plan was to work through this past weekend and last weekend to get caught up on homeschool.  The kids pretty much did that, but I was not there to help them.  I worked all day Saturday, then went to … Continue reading →

For the last half year, up until yesterday, I only had to work four and a half days per week.  It was very, very nice.  I had been working a lot more than five days per week anyway, but it … Continue reading →

Dad’s got homeschool pretty much covered, but not the rest of our lives, so here’s our 2009 in summary! January:It snows a lot… everyone’s toes are cold and we make tamales and go go-karting at Pigeon Forge with friends and … Continue reading →

I have already written about the fact that we are a little bit behind in our homeschool right now and that we made a major overhaul of our homeschool schedule last week.  That major overhaul was not just about getting … Continue reading →

It is hard to catch up when you get behind.  We are in the middle of that right now.  After all the traveling and the holiday break we have found ourselves about a week behind in several of our homeschool … Continue reading →

Today is BUSY and I’m a little lazy, so I’m just gonna put up some overdue Christmas photos and catch up on the blog later. Sugar cookies that Jenna and I made Tons of chocolate covered pretzels and a cookie … Continue reading →

We are back into testing season.  Kelly is the only one taking a CLEP test (Western Civilization I) on the next (January 20) test date.  Then, neither Kelly nor Christian will be ready for their next CLEP test until March.  … Continue reading →

We want to build one of these: