Kelly amazed me yesterday when she explained to me that she found a better way to do our history studies. We are going to go ahead and follow her idea. It should add some additional structure and learning opportunity for her. We are slowing down the homeschool a little going into the Thanksgiving holiday. The kids have a dentist appointment today and Kelly has an orthodontist appointment tomorrow, too, so we are going to spend a little more time on getting ready for everyone to come for turkey dinner.

Our linux computer blew up on us a couple of days ago so we have been using the windows computer to do our homeschool planning. I really like to use the linux computer better though so I was disappointed that I was going to have to spend $300 to buy new hardware. I talked to Steve Wilcox, one of the IT guys this morning about it and he said he would put me together a box from stuff that they are going to throw away. That is GREAT!