Schoolin' On the Road

Dec. 8, 2005

Another Installment in "As the Wheels Turn"

When last we left our intrepid travellers, they were on their way to Seatlle.  We now find that they have been to Seattle, back out and over a very snowy and wet Snoqualmie pass, and through the bitter cold of  the northern plains states.  They are now on their way to Utah, via an icy, snowy and chilly Illinois.  The female lead is never so thankful for their nice warm truck as when they have been outside loading the trailer in weather that is rainy and windy and COLD!!!!!  Tennesee was cold this afternoon, and one of the hazards of having a flatbed or stepdeck trailer this time of year is that you have to load and unload in miserable weather. 

Homeschooling our DS remains a challenge.  He is forever "forgetting" to do parts of his assignments.  We are also having the problem that I haven't been able to replace the Bible disc of his curriculum and won't until Christmas week when we get home.  So his lesson plans keep showing that he is way behind in that.  Oh, well.  we'll work on it and get it caught up.  One of the benefits of it being that subject is that he has a thirst and it wont be a hardship for him to catch it up.

I finally think that I have found the replacement history program that we are going to use.  I decided that we would use "History Scribe" and the History timeline books and just kind of work on the Civil War.  I know quite a bit about that, I have some resources and we do have internet access, so we can do a third grade unit for the rest of the school year.  He's also interested in that and westward expansion so it won't be too awfully difficult.

I was able to  catch up with an old highschool friend tonight that I haven't talked to in about three years.  That was really neat.  It is kind of  fun to reminisce with someone that has known you for a large part of your life, even tho we haven't seen each other in 22 years, he doesn't seem to have changed much.  We were talking about how old we are (we're both 40, although I'm older) and how sometimes it is so hard to believe that we are old enough to be THIS responsible and have children THIS old.

Well, we are fast approaching our stopping point for the night and I need to end this, so until next time.....

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Dec. 27, 2005 - Untitled Comment

Posted by LaMereAcademy
I know what you mean! I still feel young inside. I have to remind myself that I'm an adult! ha ha.
Sounds like you have a very interesting life. Are you able to stop and see important places as you travel? Your son must get such a cool education!
Blessings,
~Becky
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