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Jul. 6, 2009
The Beach, Go Tell Camp, And School
The last couple of weeks have been busy and I haven't had a chance to get online...well, that's not entirely true. The first week we were gone, the second week, I just didn't feel like it...
I have had a growing dislike for the computer this year. There are so many other things I would rather be doing. Reading a book, playing with the kids, cleaning the house, working on some project or another. I rarely surf these days or read blogs. But I do like keeping some record of what we are up to...even if it is just so family will know what we are doing.
We were at Myrtle Beach from June 19th through 28th. While there, we had mostly a fun time. We did some of our favorite things like play Putt-Putt, visit the aquarium, race go-karts, look for seashells, take pictures, lay by the pool, and play in the ocean. Daniel, Jack and I were also busy working on our SCUBA certification. That didn't go as well or as quickly as we thought it would.
We each had things that were a bit hard for us to master. Daniel overcame the quickest, but had to work at skills such as mask clearing and putting on his BC while in the water. I had the hardest time with mask clearing. Every time I tried to do it, I would try to breath in through my nose. But after a few days of practice, I was getting the hang of it. Jack just wasn't comfortable with the whole idea of being down deep due to some things he had read about lung over expansion injuries. He did finally go into the deeper part of the pool, but refused to do the ocean dive. On ocean dive day, the waves were high and I got sea sick...oh well...Daniel got two of his dives in and needs to do two more to get open water certified. I need to do all four of my dives and I think Jack is probably going to stick with snorkeling for now.
After we got back from the beach on Sunday, Jack took off for Go Tell Camp (church camp) on Monday. He was gone until Friday and Katrina spent that time either at her friend, Kaley's house, or Kaley was here. We went to see The Hannah Montana Movie, which I enjoyed even though I found it pretty predictable. We also went swimming at a local pool one afternoon.
Then on Saturday, we were going to hike to the top of Sharp Top (part of the Peaks of Otter) with a group that goes up there to see fireworks on the Fourth of July. However, we didn't get to go. They were calling for storms, so we just lit up some fireworks we had here for about an hour. We all enjoyed that just as much.
Today, we started up with some of our school. I always seem to struggle to get all of our math and grammar done. I think it is because those subjects have a set number of lessons that need to be done during a year's time. Whereas, other subjects we do, do not. So we are doing math and grammar so the kids won't be incredibly behind due to our trip to Australia in the autumn.
There, now ...all caught up...if only I can make myself get on the computer a bit more regularly. |
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