It is going to a little bit of a small post today, because we are only half way there in the resolution of the problem we are trying to solve at work. We made good progress yesterday, though, and I expect it we will have our head above water again by today or tomorrow.
There are a couple of fun things going on at home. First, since the summer is over and Kelly is on a regular schedule again, she is much more consistent on her piano practice. The teacher noticed at her lesson yesterday and gave her a new, much more difficult book of Bach pieces. Lorena and I are very musically challenged, so we have quite a struggle when it comes to finding a good piano teacher for Kelly and a good guitar teacher for Christian. Kelly’s old teacher, Jill Hickenlooper, from Oregon is the one who found Mrs. Bruce for us via internet forums and email. We very much appreciated her help and believe Mrs. Bruce is a magnificent teacher. It took a year for Kelly to get into the system–Mrs. Bruce wanted to fix a few things with Kelly’s technique before she had her do hard pieces. That was frustrating for Kelly, but now that she is well into the process she understands the need to establish the right technical base so she can play hard things well as opposed to just play hard things.
The other thing that is happening at home, is that we have ordered a new computer for Christian for his birthday. We needed to get another one because the old one is just worn out. Christian invested a hundred dollars of his own money into the computer. We bought one toward the inexpensive end of the spectrum, but still very, very nice. It is a computer for both of the kids so they can do their school work on the way to lessons, the store, the YMCA, etc. Kelly pretty much just uses the laptop for reports as she checks her email and blog on the desktop computers at home. Christian uses it for his experiments and programming lessons. It came to the house yesterday, but no one was there to receive it, so he is suffering through another day of waiting. I have told him he cannot even open the box until he has finished all of his homeschool, which is very painful. It is also very necessary. The temptation is just too great.
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