Lorena got lots of greetings from lots of places on her birthday yesterday.  We spent a quiet evening, but plan to celebrate a little more this weekend.  This will be a working weekend for homeschool and our some of our programming projects.  Kelly said she could get completely caught up this weekend on all of her material.  Dad has to do his correction job for Christian to get caught up, but I do not think that will be a problem.  Now there is another round of standardized testing (CLEP Western Civilization I for Kelly on January 20 and the ACT for both of the kids on February 6).  We are finally getting toward the end of our 900 page U.S. History book.  We have ordered several other books, one on writing, one on gracious argumentation, and one on ancient civilization.  Also, Deanne gave us a good recommendation, so I will try to pull out the Strunk and White writing book sometime this weekend, too.