The kids went down to the YMCA last night for the first meeting of our local YMCA swim team. Some of the kids from last year were missing, but many of them were back. Both Kelly and Christian love just about everything about the swim team. It is a great social thing for them because they get to see a bunch of kids every day with a two or three hour chunk of time during each of the swim meets that mostly consists of hanging out with the other kids intermixed with a fifteen minute warm-up and several two or three minute races. The exercise is their favorite kind of exercise. They get to work on their tans. It is all good. It is even good for Lorena. While the kids practice, she does her workout at the Y and then sits in the sun and gossips with the other parents while they wait for the kids to finish. I am sure we will be hearing about this in Betty Blonde.
This weekend, I finished the last weekly homeschool schedules for the year. This was the last year I will have to do schedules for Kelly. Next year, my role for her scheduling will be more of a consulting role as she prepares to go to the community college full time the year after that. Her main, structured subject areas will be Math, Science (Chemistry), and French. She plans to take CLEP tests in Precalculus, Micro and Macro Economics, Chemistry, Analyzing and Interpreting Literature, History of Western Civilization I and II, and Financial Accounting. In addition to that, she will prepare for PSAT and ACT tests, do a lot of writing and, as of this weekend, a lot of piano practice. I have two years of schedules left to do for Christian, so I will not be moving cold turkey away from scheduling. Christian’s CLEP load will increase some next year, too. I think it is good practice for them to manage their own test preparation, so all I really do for that is watch over their shoulder so we can make the best effort possible to cover all the bases.