Monthly Archives: February 2010

It is snowing hard here in Raleigh this morning.  The weather is too warm for it to stick, but it surely is beautiful out there this morning.

It was an amazing day yesterday.  My boss announced to our group that he and his wife were going to have a baby in October.  Shortly after that, we got a note from Tia Minita that she and Tio Rigo … Continue reading →

Kelly and Christian both took the ACT college entrance exam in early February.  The results to the multiple choice portion of the test were posted yesterday.  Both of them did great.  We are learning more and more about these tests.  … Continue reading →

Betty Blonde is so much fun. I can do whatever I want with it. If I’m feeling a little 80′s, I’ll indulge an 80′s rock star. If I feel that Betty Blonde (the character) has been a little clichéd lately, … Continue reading →

We are going through a major transition here in the Chapman household.  We have established some goals that we all need to complete by the end of the year.  For Kelly, it has to do with getting everything finished for … Continue reading →

There are still a lot of ifs, but we are arriving at a plan.  If we can swing the financing, if I do not have to move because of my job, if we can get the transportation worked out, if.., … Continue reading →

I haven’t been on too many college campuses in my life, so I had few preconceived opinions when we arrived at Campbell to tour the campus.  Our guide was an exuberant Italian-American woman from New Jersey whose two homeschooled children … Continue reading →

I do not want steal Kelly’s thunder, but I wanted to talk a little bit about Friday’s visit to Campbell University.  We did not get off to a great start.  On the drive there, the road was blocked so we … Continue reading →

So here in the Chapman household nothing much has been happening (other than the very exciting college, academic, ACT etc. stuff which Dad has already filled you in on.)  February is generally very dreary around here.  Mundane things excite me … Continue reading →

Every now and then I kind of wake up and realize that I have too many irons in the fire, I am getting further out of shape (and fatter!?!!), and I am just going through the motions while life spins … Continue reading →

Tomorrow afternoon, the whole family plans to make the trek down to Buies Creek, North Carolina to visit Campbell University for the first time.  We think that might be a great place for Kelly to study.  It is a smaller … Continue reading →

Jonah Goldberg has a post over at National Review’s the corner blog titled On Rigor and Academia.  I have been harping on my kids about this for about five years now.  We have an agreement in the family that they … Continue reading →

The ACT this year felt so much better than last year’s.  Last year, there were many math and science questions that I didn’t know where to begin with, whereas this year I felt I could understand and ace every single … Continue reading →

Kelly and Christian both took their second past at the ACT college entrance test yesterday.  Both of them felt like the did quite a bit better than last year.  All got me to thinking about a series of comments by … Continue reading →

Wednesday night after our bible study, our buddy Kendall told us he had made a remote control lawn mower.  Of course we all wanted to see it.  The following video arrived in my email yesterday.  We were humbled.  Now are … Continue reading →

Homeschool-wise, January was a very busy, but fairly uneventful month.  Other than Kelly’s last Western Civilization I CLEP test, there was nothing more than nose-to-the-grindstone studying intermixed with bad weather.  On a sad note, Lorena has been helping our homeschooling … Continue reading →

Here’s a few pictures for you Youngin!  A coat is covering the pillar, but there is a hallway behind the back wall that you see, and a small areato the side of that where the fire pit originally was. The … Continue reading →

Well we’ve had an amazing snowy weekend!  We ate a lot, almost like Christmas time, and we made the best snowfort of our lives.  It was epic. We woke up on Saturday morning all ready to get cold and wet … Continue reading →

It snowed hard here at our house, thawed a couple of times, refroze, and left the roads a complete mess.  I will be working from the house today.  The kids had a great time yesterday in the snow: