Today is the last day of school for the 2008-2009 school year. I will detail some of the things we accomplished for the year in the regular, first Thursday of the month update. This weekend, we talked about some of the fun things we plan to do this summer. We will start it of with a bang by running over to Charlotte for a get-together on Friday night with a bunch of kids from church who are the same age as Kelly and Christian. After that, we will be heavy into the summer swim season until mid-July. We hope Lorena’s brother Jorge will come sometime in late July or early August. One way or the other, we plan to do some more site seeing around North Carolina and then head off to Oregon to spend a couple of weeks with Grandpa Milo, Grandma Sarah, and all our friends out there. In the middle of all that the kids plan to continue with a minimal (an hour and a half to two hours per day) amount of homeschool. They will do a little Spanish/French, Math, reading, and guitar/piano practice. We also plan to continue our read aloud/comic drawing sessions every evening. I want to sit with Christian and develop a C++ program for our project with North Carolina State University. Christian will also work on finishing the cat tower and, hopefully, get the ham radio going. Kelly plans to knit, read, and draw. One of the main goals, though is to swim EVERY DAY. I think that is not a bad summer plan.
Update: I put in for my first audio book request. Actually, I asked for two audio books, both by Thomas F. Madden, but the first had two people in front of me so I do not expect to get it for awhile. The one that should come in first is titled Empire of Gold, A History of the Byzantine Empire. I hope I get it this weekend in time to listen to it during next weeks workouts.
Ken, I do hope we are on your list of people to visit while in Oregon!! Could we have everyone over for a BBQ? Let us know some dates ok?
Thanks a lot for the note and the invite JoAnn. I think I am only going to be there for a couple of days (if at all–depending on work), but Lorena and the kids were planning to be down to Albany to see everyone. We will keep you posted when we figure out the dates.
Congratulations on finishing another school year! [smile]
And I love audio books while driving. I got through “Crime and Punishment” in high school by listening to all 19 tapes in my car.
~Luke
I am hoping to do exactly what you did with Crime and Punishment, Luke. There are a ton of books that I probably would not read for pleasure, but, as long as I am stuck, they will probably do me some good.