Clearly....

Clearly I stink at this whole "keeping an updated blog" thing.

Sorry.

I had good intentions. I was going to post at least once a week with summaries of what we had done and pictures of our field trips and cool science experiments. It all worked great in my head! Unfortunately I forgot to take into account the fact that I am time-challenged and, basically, lazy when it comes to these things.

To sum up last year though - it was great :) We finished our work on June 26th and the girls excelled in every subject. They are awesome. I'll post some pics over the next couple of weeks. In theory, anyway. I know you don't believe me, but I might just surprise you.

So anyway, beginning June 26th we took a 6 week summer vacation. We started it off with a bang by coming down with some weird virus. We are a polite bunch though - we took turns and spent about 4 weeks passing it around the family. I bet you're sorry that you don't live at our house! I was totally run down for about 10 days and then just super weak for another 7. The girls didn't seem to be as tired, but they had the whole fever, tummy ache, whiney, sickey thing that's required of any long-lived illness.

We made it through, but that didn't leave a whole lot of time to mark things off my FIVE PAGE 'to do' list before I needed to start planning for this years' co op classes and prep for our own studies. Let's just say that the last couple of weeks have basically involved me being tied to a chair - working, working, working.

Sadly the house is still a mess, but I am prepared to start teaching co op and my own children. Basically. Kinda' sorta. We'll work out the kinks as we go along.

I haven't downloaded our official first day of school pics yet, but we did get back to work on August 3rd and co op starts on August 21st....Here we go!

Happy 2009-2010 school year!!!!!

Family visit

My mom, sister and niece (who all live in NW Indiana) came to visit the same night that we got back from camp. Unfortunately, I did not take many pictures while they were here! But I did get a shot of my kids trying to teach grandma how to play the Wii. She wasn't a huge fan, but she did pretty good at the runs on Wii Fit! (Please ignore the hideously ugly couch. It's finally GONE!)



And here's a shot of Beth showing off her new 'do. She and her mom snuck off for a few days and at some point they hit a salon for a spa day. Next time they visit I may have to sneak off with them.

The time went way too fast, as always, and we never did get to go to my favorite restaurant on the beach. Next time. Thanks for the visit and we look forward to seeing you guys when we head north this September. *smooches*