Sat, 23 Jan 2010
BasketballI haven't written in a couple weeks. I think that getting used to the new chuch schedule is difficult for me. When we went to church in the afternoon, I had time in the morning to write. But now we get up and go to church and the afternoons just get taken up with other things.
Of course, there hasn't been that much to write about either. Melody has been playing church basketball on Saturdays. Now that Bryan is no longer working at Subway, he will have time for basketball also. Today we all went and watched both Bryan and Melody play. Both games were exciting.
We are mostly done with science projects. Melody still has a display to make and it's due in a couple weeks. We just learned today that the pinewood derby has been postponed for a month. That means Thomas has more time to work on his car. Good thing, since he hasn't started yet.
Marc and I started a ballroom dance class together. The first class was fun. This is the same class that Bryan and I took together last semester. Marc and I even practiced together once this week. Casa Loma Ballroom here we come…
I just can't think of anything that is exciting going on around here. All the pictures on my camera are of ripening bananas. By the way, Melody seems to have determined that ripening fruit in a paper bag is a good thing, but that it does not help to put already ripe fruit in the bag to speed things along.
Thomas had his middle school orientation this week. He is excited about middle school but can't decide whether he wants to take orchestra or choir for his elective. I'm not even sure which I'm rooting for. I wish he could take both. I'll just be happy to have kids at only two schools instead of three.
I guess I'll end there and go see what's going on with the rest of the family.
Thu, 07 Jan 2010
snowWe waited for snow all of Christmas vacation and only got an inch or so. Never enough to play in. So the kids headed back to school yesterday, and it snowed about five inches last night. Today school was canceled. I think it's kind of poor timing. Thomas is out playing in it, but would have preferred to go to school because Thursdays are his favorite day of school. That's the day he gets to take a special class at a different school.
Bryan is bummed because today is supposed to be the Missouri State Thespian Conference in St. Louis. He's been looking forward to going for months. He even payed quite a bit of his own money to go. We still don't know if the conference will be postponed or if his school just isn't willing to send a bus. I hope he gets to go.
Marc actually headed to work but turned around after traveling about a mile on the freeway. He said there were wrecks all over the place and it wasn't worth it to try to get there. He can work from home thanks to the wonders of the Internet.
Meanwhile, an extra day of vacation. Good thing we got lots of books for Christmas.
Sun, 03 Jan 2010
Happy New YearOur vacation has been quiet.Marc and Bryan working a lot. All of us relaxing and reading books and watching movies when we can. Otherwise, Melody and Thomas both had science projects to do. Grumble, grumble. As much as I like science projects, I don't like having homework to do over vacation. It defeats the purpose of vacation. Anyway, we've been watching bananas ripen for Melody's project.
Thomas and I built some bridges to test the structures of various trusses. Just a hint for anyone contemplating this as a science fair project. Don't do it. We tried popsicle sticks at first and there was too much variation in the different sticks to make a fair test. So Marc suggested straws and pins. These were such a pain to build with also. We planned to build nine bridges (three designs, three trials each) but we ended up only building three total. I ended up with super glue all over and pin pokes in my fingers. After these horrible, dangerous bridges were built, we got our revenge by hanging weights from them until they collapsed. Now we only have to write up the project and make a display. Meanwhile, Melody's bananas are still ripening. But at least they weren't dangerous like the bridges.
Yesterday, we decided to get out of the house, so we all went to Forest Park. The weather was COLD and so we didn't go to the zoo. We went to the art museum (here Thomas is contemplating the picture "Man with Earmuffs"
and the Science Center. At the science center, Melody found out how much it would cost to send her into space. We're starting a collection if anyone would like to contribute to the "Send Melody to space" fund. Maybe that's why Bryan has been working so hard at Subway…
We wish you all a Happy New Year.
Jan Dill Hall St. Peters, Missouri
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