Five days in already!

We have now completed five days of school! Woohoo!!

I admit on our first day we had lots of trouble, between fire ants in the kitchen cabinet and the girls not wanting to start back to school. But here we are five days later and it is going much smoother. I was worried about the new science curriculum but the girls are enjoying it.

Jesse's science took her outside to "observe trees". She loves anything outside! Chloe's experiment this week actually involved the microscope. Of course, Jesse had to look through the microscope too. She was not about to miss out on any of that fun!

I have to admit it has been a little weird not doing spelling with Jesse. And I think she misses it a bit; it was her favorite subject, because it was easy. lol 

We are doing things a little different this year too. The girls are bringing their chairs to my desk when they complete a subject and we are going over their answers right then. Then I push them, on their chair, back to their desk. They said it adds some "FUN" to school. Whatever it takes!

We are loving the break from taekwondo too. Yes, we still enjoy it but a break is always nice after six months. We'll start back in August and we already have two new students signed up! I love new students!! I am hoping one of my new students from May decides to come back. She was so scared at graduation in June. I introduced her to a higher ranking student and explained that it was the higher ranking student's first graduation with us too. I think she felt better hearing the higher ranking student telling her that she was terrified also.

We have new neighbors! They finished building the house, up the hill, and it sold to a nice young couple. We've had several conversations with them and I think they are going to be good neighbors. It also looks like they are going to start building a house across the street and up the hill one lot. There is now a yellow sign, which usually is the beginning of this particular builder's process.

Yes. We are still here!

As usual, life is always interesting!

I’ve been busy, too busy to blog. Jesse has been busy but not too busy to continually send me notes through the blog reminding me I have not blogged. LOL

I finished grading last year’s school work and mailed all the paper work. The girls decided to work through a weekend so they could be done earlier. They finished June 11^th (if my memory serves me, and sometimes it doesn’t). They both finished with all As and Bs, which they were both elated with since their work is getting more difficult. Chloe was really happy to make a higher final grade in English than Jesse…first time ever! Jesse was elated with a B as a final; her English really did get more difficult last year.

 

Honestly, I can’t really say what we’ve been up to because it has just been our usual. I can tell you that Chloe has a new obsession, Scrabble! She loves it and it is a rare night that she does not ask to play. We actually purchased a new Scrabble board. It is awesome! Yes, an awesome Scrabble board. First off it is made so the tiles don’t move. Second, everything is stored in the bottom of the board. Third, and best of all, it has wheels so it can turn it toward each player. Awesome! lol

Yesterday was our first day back to school. We have started a new science curriculum so I was anxious to see how they liked it. Chloe didn’t like reading all two pages of definitions and Jesse didn’t enjoy pulling out two science encyclopedias to look up scientists. However, this morning Jesse announced the liked the new science books because she had to go outside and “observe a tree”. Not sure how Chloe is going to feel about drawing diagrams of cells; she is starting science now.

My Dad hit a milestone too. On July 3rd, it has been one year since his last blood transfusion. His doctor says he is doing well and Dad may even get to add two additional weeks between chemo treatments, to six weeks. Yeah!!!!