It seems like every time we go off on a trip, even for a weekend, we struggle to get caught back up. Today, the kids are working away at their homeschool while Lorena is getting the household back in order. Right now, the chaos is multiplied because we have two additional large trips planned within the next month or so. We are going to a four day church convention next week and we are going to Mexico for a wedding in early October. I will only be in Mexico for a few days, but Lorena, Kelly, and Christian will be there for two full weeks. We planned the schedule so the kids will not have any (or at least very little) school work while they are down south, but is still pretty challenging to have everything completely complete (if that makes sense) before we go. Kelly has to do a bunch of Betty Blonde comics ahead. We need to make accommodations for the Christian to get some practice in on his guitar–fortunately, Tio Lauro has one. We need to find Kelly a place to practice her piano. I think I am going to have the kids take their math books with them so they can do one math assignment every other day, etc., etc.
The old posts below were about some of our great friends (Jim and JoAnn and the Nelsons) when we were still in Albany. I got pretty nostalgic when I read them.
Some special notes: Ruthie and Aunt Julia–I have tried to fix the ability to click on the comment link in the Betty Blonde emails. Could you let me know if there is still a problem?
June 16, 2004 – Moving dirt and Nelson visit
June 17, 2004 – Homeschooling in Washington state?