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?
I will certainly let you know! You had better get that fixed as it is very important that I get my two cents in on the Betty Blonde comic of the day!!!
We avidly wait your pithy comments! I think it is fixed.
You know, I am not sure that there REALLY was a problem…..ahem…..I think it was
me and I am sorry if I added work to your already hectic schedule! I think that the
problem was my eyes…or my lifelong habit of NOT following directions!…I didn’t
read (insert pay attention) where it says….click on the comment link BELOW. I
always just clicked on the link directly there at the end of that instruction, and it let me click on it…but it lead me to the wrong page. Then the next day I read more closely and scrolled down a bit to the correct link and, voila!, it worked. Perhaps it was that you had fixed
it already, but I don’t know. I should have admitted my part in this a long time
ago…actually the day after I made the complaint….may have saved you some
precious time!
My husband also needs 8 hours or he doesn’t function right. He makes up for his lack of sleep with a nice nap on lazy Sunday afternoons.
Thanks for the note Ruthie. Especially the part about Sunday afternoons. Our parents led us to believe a Sunday afternoon nap was required by scriptural mandate. Now that I am over fifty, I understand why! As for the comment link, I actually found a bug. It only manifested itself on single digit days of the month, but I have fixed it! I want no one to be impeded from encouraging Kelly and her artistic pursuits!