We are slowly returning to normal in the Chapman household.  Grandpa Milo and Grandma Sarah went home yesterday.  We are slowly eroding the overload of food in the refrigerator.  The kids are back on their regular homeschool schedule even though they have a little catching up to do because of the holidays and some upcoming tests–more on that tomorrow during my monthly homeschool update.  I have access to the scales again now that Grandpa and Grandma are not using the downstairs bedroom.  Actually, I was pretty worried about that, but when I weighed this morning I was EXACTLY where I left off when they got here over a week ago.  I have flat-lined on the graph for the last week at 30.2 pounds lost since I started last February.  I have decided to start a new graph on January 1 so that Bryan, Lyle, Brad, and I can keep going for another year.  It has helped a lot to post this every day.  If anyone else would like to join the game, let me know and we will show you how to record stuff.

We have made a new resolution to use the computers a lot less in our household.  For the last few months, we spent a lot of time with the computer, sometimes at the expense of time with each other.  We have associated each computer for use at specific times, locations, and task.  We have resolved to stay off the internet so we can spend more time on reading, art, knitting, radio assembly, etc.  It has started off quite well and I think it will get even better as we get caught up on the homeschool work backlog.

Update:  My buddy John, the jack of all trades, brought in these very cool origami boxes.  He is going to show us how to make them!