Apr. 13, 2008 - Things are moving!
My house is a pile of books... beautiful curriculum everywhere! It has been really fun receiving all of it...I'm like a kid in a candy store.
We have 2 employees working for us full time now...my bookstore manager and the cafe manager. Of course, I don't have a store...so we have taken over the schoolroom. The kids do all their work on the couch anyway, so it doesn't really make that much difference. Except, I am so distracted, there isn't all that much school happening. I am trying not to feel too guilty about that. Connor was starting to really resent that I wasn't always focused on him, so Leny has started taking him everywhere with him. It has been wonderful in a multitude of ways. Amanda & Blake are quite content being independent teenagers. Delaney just kind of hangs out with me.
Speaking of Blake, he competed yesterday in Portland at the Regional Competition. We had some hope that he would qualify for Nationals, but not enough hope to actually buy the ticket. So much to his chagrin, he qualified (yeah!) but only in one event, the floor. His whole meet was marred by a giant rip he received during his first event on pommel. They bandaged and taped his hand, but that affected his performance on pommel and high-bar. Our region seems to be really s...l...o...w...in actually posting the scores somewhere, so I can see how he did in relations to others. The mom who he was with called me, but we had a bad connection, and it is just hard to collect all the details. He placed 2nd on floor with a 13.6 and didn't do to badly on vault with a 13.4. So he only gets partial bragging rights, not full! Good for the humility!
Comments
Apr. 27, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Jenni in KS
Congratulations to Blake! I don't understand the scoring for the boys, but I know 2nd is good.
I'm sure the kids are learning some very valuable lessons about starting a business that they could not learn from their textbooks.
BTW, I've tagged you for a meme over at my blog if you're up for it.
