We ran like crazy for the last month. The trip to Mexico, Cousin Julia’s visit, and the excitement of the election are now over. Tonight and this whole weekend, we plan to do nothing more than hang out together as a family. That will include comic drawing, McDonalds for breakfast, a trip to Costco, and some quality time at the bookstore with hot cocoa for the kids and coffee for Lorena and I on Saturday morning. We will talk Kelly into baking us some bread. If the weather is nice, I think tomorrow would be a good time to give both Kelly and Christian a lesson on how to grill steaks. I need to work up lesson plans for the next couple of weeks that includes the new ACT preparation materials we plan to buy on Saturday. I also need to get my materials ready for our annual meeting with the North Carolina Department of Non-Public Education on Monday. The following is Christian’s rendering of the Betty Blonde comic strip characters. I thought I would post it as I thought it was nice and I did not have much to say this morning.
Update: Christian, check out this search engine. Amazing. It makes associations and suggestions on searches.
November 6, 2004 – Wayne the Mexican (comic strip)
November 7, 2004 – Rocket launch (photos)
Aha! so, Kelly and Christian want to study in the midwest (but apparently not Texas):
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5b/SAT-ACT_Preference_Map.svg
Aha! Good info Charlie! Actually, the reason they are taking the ACT instead of the SAT is because the ACT is approved as a nationally normed standardized test for homeschoolers in North Carolina and the SAT is not, but it IS good to know that we have the added benefit of excluding Texas.