Wendy’s for dinner

Homeschool day 43 of 180
Government school day 35 of 170

Lorena did her workout and studied hard for her calculus class last night. She is really keeping up the pressure. When I got home, she had just finished her thirty minutes on the elliptical machine and was talking about fixing dinner, but I decided we all needed a break so we went down to Wendy’s to have a baked potato and a bowl of chili. We love to do that every now an then. Grandma Sarah calls Wendy’s “the chili place” and that has stuck with Kelly and Christian, too. The thing that is good about it is that no one is tempted to get up and walk away to answer the telephone, grab a book, or (in Lorena’s case) wipe off the already clean counter. We are stuck with just sitting there and talking to each other. It is nice. We usually have that at dinner at home, too, but there were a LOT of distractions yesterday.

I called up the local VFW post today and talked to the commander. Kelly is going to take her essay in later this afternoon. As per popular request (thanks for asking JoAnn), we will post it here either tonight or tomorrow. I will also post Kelly’s cover letter because it was very cool, too.

You may have noticed that I have reduced the number of government school days from 175½ to 170. 170 days is the official government count of days that kids will actually be taught in our local schools. We were giving them the benefit of a doubt, but will go with the official count in our daily tally.