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I cannot believe it has been over SIX months since I updated my blog.  My bad!

Since I last posted:

1.  We have reached the halfway point in our homeschool year.  We finished up The Easy French and Christian Kids Explore Earth & Space and are nearly finished with English from the Roots Up, Volume I.  Bean asked if she could study Botany for the rest of the year, so I bought her Exploring Creation with Botany from Apologia.  She'll start that on Monday.

2.  We started and finished the swim season for this year.  Bean competed in the maximum number of events allowed at the Championships in February and got one gold medal (100 Free), 3 silver medals (50 Free, 50 Back, 200 IM) and one bronze medal (50 Fly).  She also acheived new personal bests in all of her events.  Way to go, Bean!!

3.  We went to London for 5 days in October and had a BLAST!!  We did everything on our list except the Tower of London (they wanted 43£ for a family admission, but I was told later that it was worth every pence, so we should have gone).  We also saw two shows:  Mary Poppins and Wicked.  Wicked was amazing.  We got the soundtrack and have all the songs memorized now for when we go back.  We did manage to find Platform 9 3/4 at Kings Cross Station and took pictures there.

4.  Bean got her class dress for Irish Dance!!  Don't even ask how much it was.  But, she looks beautiful and is dancing very well.  We are headed to a feis (Irish dance competition) in the Netherlands in a few weeks.  We'll also get to see Keukenhof that same weekend.  I'll post pictures when we get back.

I can't think of any other major stuff we've had going on here.  I'll try to keep up better!!!

T~