Trip report – April 20, 2004

Today I am travelling to Florence, South Carolina for work. On the flight between Portland and Denver, I sat with a family from Scapoose that is homeschooling their four boys between the ages of about twelve and about eighteen. They were on their way down to Orlando to visit Disney World. I am not crazy about Disney World, but they were a very nice family. They are using Abeka curricula almost exclusively. In addition, the boys play sports in the local government school sports programs as is legal under Oregon State law.

I am getting so that I like to travel less and less if I am not with Lorena, Kelly, and Christian. I guess it is good in that it makes me realize a little more how important they are to me. Even more than that, it makes me think of how little time I have left with the kids and how important it is to “raise them up in the way they should go in the fear and admonition of the Lord.”

Last night we heard that Lorena’s cousin Martha is going to marry a guy we introduced to her from our church. He does not go to the same Sunday morning meeting as us, but he goes to one in the town next door so we see him at Gospel Meetings once or twice a week. They have known each other for about four months and are planning to get married on July 17th, so things seem to be moving right along with them. For the first time, we will be living close to someone from Lorena’s family. Maybe more people from down in Monterrey will come up and visit us now that there are more of us to see up here. Here is a picture of Tony and Martha from when Martha came here to visit for the first time in March.



Tony and Martha

Planning

We still have not received the Sonlight catalog so I am not sure what I am going to do about language, grammar, and history yet. I might take a look at the Abeka program along with the others. There is not much I can do while I am here on the airplane other than read the Well Trained Mind book. Maybe I will have some insights on what we might do on the homebound leg if I do some reading now.||I had to go to South Carolina for a couple of days for my work. I have a few thoughts on my trip and a few thoughts about homeschool. I met a very nice homeschooling family on my way there.