Day 274 of 1000
Lorena and are never too excited for the kids to be away, but we are looking forward to a week alone while the kids head to California. They think it is a vacation for them, but really, it is a vacation for us.
Month: May 2012
Day 271 of 1000
This is a first. Lorena, Kelly, and Christian are doing last minute shopping for the kids trip to California. The GaugeCam team is mostly out of town. That leaves me on my own, so I decided to come down to the Hill Library at NCSU to work on the GaugeCam project. The library is mostly empty as all the students are off on summer break. This is the first time I came on my own. It is really very nice. I have my cup of McDonalds coffee and am all set for 3-4 hours of programming. I expect to do this more now that the (home) “school is out for ever“.
College notes: Kelly has enrolled in all her classes but one for fall semester. She will take one online class at the community college. Christian passed a placement test for chemistry (passed), but has to wait for his high school and second year college classes to matriculate before he can register. He has one more test on Monday that will let him avoid taking the bonehead computer class and get into a programming class (C++, Java, or Matlab).
Day 264 of 1000
Thanks Troy, Youngin, and Lucia! It is a great thing that red is a thinning color!
Day 257 of 1000
Cinco de Mayo de 2012–A stellar day!
Day 256 of 1000
Today is Kelly’s last day of homeschool and community college. I dropped her off for her last final in Geology at the Wake Technical Community College Main Campus. Her formal graduation from both will occur tomorrow. Christian’s last day of homeschool and community college will be on Monday, but we will not have his formal high school graduation until he is the right age in a couple of years. Grandpa Milo and Grandma Sarah are here from Oregon to go to the ceremony and we have a potluck planned for all our local friends tomorrow afternoon. I will turn in our graduation notice to the State of North Carolina early next week.
Homeschool has been a good great run for us. I think it was a great gift to our kids, but maybe even a greater gift to Lorena and I. I believe the homeschool meme, “Quality Time IS Quantity Time” is true. That is what homeschool gave to us as parents a TON of time with our children and we would not give it up for the world. This whole blog has been about why that was true for us. This is a moment of great joy and melancholy.