The really big news from yesterday is that Kelly passed her Spanish CLEP test with flying colors.  I think Rosetta Stone Spanish and the CLEP study book we purchased were a good combination.  Lorena, Kelly, and Christian drove down to Johnston Community College in Smithfield, NC to take the test.  I talked to a lady named Ciara on the telephone to set up the test.  She is the test administrator.  Lorena talked to her in person for quite awhile while Kelly took the test.  It turns out she is just as nice in person as she is on the telephone.  We plan to take all our tests there from now on.  The next time they travel to Smithfield in early February, Kelly plans to take the History of the United States II:  1865 to the Present exam.  In the meantime, study books for the CLEP Biology, Psychology, and Sociology are on the way.  We will wait until toward the end of the year to start working on the biology because we want her to finish the excellent Exploring Creation with Biology by Jay Wile before she prepares for the CLEP test.  Hopefully they will get her in time for to start studying either Psychology or Sociology next week.

Christian is almost ready to take the Freshman College Composition CLEP test.  He could probably pass the test now, but we want him to be over prepared for the first one.  He plans to take the test at the same time Kelly takes U.S. History II in February.  Meanwhile he studies Western Civilization I:  Ancient Near East to 1648 along with the Freshman College Composition.  After those two, he will move on to Spanish and Western Civilization II:  1648 to Present if there is enough time with all the other studies.

Everything else is moving along fine.  As usual, we got hammered pretty hard with testing, Thanksgiving and the visit from Grandpa Milo and Grandma Sarah, but Christian should be completely caught up and on schedule with math and everything else by tomorrow.  Kelly has her first annual cookie exchange tomorrow night, so I expect her to be a little behind until Tuesday of next week.  Our next really big school event is the ACT test both Kelly and Christian will take on February 7–Christian as part of the Duke Talent Identification Program and both of the kids to be in compliance with North Carolina homeschool laws.