Melinda sends me photos via her cell phone every so often. She has a cell phone that does not have cell service.. however, it does have wifi.. So she can download “apps” and such. (She has even figured out how to get phone service with it, as long as she is near a wifi hotspot! (that’s my girl.))
ANYWAY. here is a photo she sent me today. I will request she sends more. Thanks Melinda!
Posted on 31 August '12 by admin, under kids, St Croix. No Comments.
Posted on 30 August '12 by admin, under Activities. No Comments.
Hannah is going to get some undue attention on this blog for a little while, for obvious reasons.. I will try to transfer facebook stuff here as much as possible of Rockwell and Melinda.
Anyway.. we visited the library tonight. Here is the typical place I find Hannah if I leave her alone for any length of time. It’s a sign she is done harvesting books.
And here is the typical harvest. Now, I don’t know about you, but my normal visit to the library rarely nets more than a book or two. These are due the Sept 8th. History says half of them will be read by that time.
Posted on 29 August '12 by admin, under kids. 2 Comments.
Well. Hannah and I saw Melinda, Rockwell and Kathi off to their second and last adventure in St Croix. Its going to be hard to be without them this school year, but Hannah and I will keep each other company. I would not have approved, except we got them into St Croix Country day school. That made me feel much better about it. Ill try to do a better job of keeping everyone updated on what they are doing than I did last time… sorry!
In other news, Hannah has finished her first week of high school. She only had to correct the teacher once… The teacher said Demeter was a Roman goddess, when she is actually a Greek goddess… Her and her friend Sara brought it up discretely after class though… Wise move.
Note: I had no idea who Demeter was until I looked her up.
Posted on 26 August '12 by admin, under school, St Croix, Uncategorized. 1 Comment.
My oldest started High school Yesterday! She might look a little like a “punk” in this picture.. But don’t let it fool you. She starts out with Honors English 2, Honors Geometry and Band. At least that is what I know so far.. I have not see her schedule yet (Kath helped her with that.)
I saw her looking at the last pages of a couple library books before we handed them in the other day.. I asked her what she was doing. She said she was counting how many pages she has read this summer, just for the fun of it.
“So, how many?”
“eh. A little more than 25000…”
Posted on 21 August '12 by admin, under kids, school. No Comments.
Or rather, Catch up.
Here a bunch of photos from my cell phone that should have been put on here over the last 4 months…:
Posted on 18 August '12 by admin, under Activities. No Comments.
OK, its been a month. Ill have to get a X-ray of the healed bone, just for grins. So far its going together well. I have manipulated it in place, and kept it pretty well wrapped up so it cant move. I think its going to be almost unnoticeable when It is fully healed. Knock on wood. My experience asking other people who broke theirs, (a lot of them came up to me and asked if that was what it was.. they recognized the bandages I guess) is “They gave me next to no instructions either”.
No surprise there. “Instructions? go to the 500$ physical therapist for those!” Of which the probably hourly PT will get 50$ and the corp will get 450$.
No thanks, I will DIY.
Posted on 18 August '12 by admin, under sports. No Comments.
Not to leave them out, here are the other two kid’s scores. Melinda’s Teachers seemed to really like her, she had all sorts of little awards. Rockwell had a couple too, but I can’t find them. Sorry older Rockwell that is looking at this .. 🙂
Rockwell likes math. It’s his favorite subject. I approve of that. 🙂
Posted on 13 August '12 by admin, under kids, school, St Croix. No Comments.
<beware; parental boasting ahead>
Umm.. so, Hannah got her Iowa test scores in the mail today. I suppose taking standardized tests has to get old after a while.. Except when you get scores like this. I knew my oldest was pretty bright, but goodness, with NPR’s like that.. It’s pretty special, I would say. Unfortunately, she was not in school when they did the Science section. Hannah was not happy about that when she found out, because science is important to her.
And not to be outdone, Melinda’s Composite total NPR was 98%… But I have to find her score sheet to show you. I mean… seriously.
You know that saying/joke: “kids, move out and get a job while you still know everything”? I might have to reconsider that. I am starting to think they probably are smarter than me…
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