I don't know what happened ..... just yesterday summer started and now it is almost over! We had a busy summer and I thought I just write a few lines, just to make sure that I still know how to spell ;-)
We had to buy a new car, my beloved Gus is dead now. It was so sad. That awesome truck brought us all the way to Kentucky and back before the motor made the most horrible noise and I couldn't drive it anymore. Speaking of Kentucky, I still owe you guys pictures from our visit of Creation Museum, but that will have to wait a little while now. I found a nice van, an Oldsmobile Silhouette, which I liked and hubby thought it was a good deal. Now we are driving that, this newer van uses much less gas. It is a nicer ride all around and even sports a dvd player, which the kids really like. I thought it would be worse having yet another possibility to watch tv or something like it. Fortunately it is being used very rarely! This new to us van is really fancy in comparison to Gus, but I did have tears in my eyes when they came to pick up Gus. It was such a good and reliable truck.....
I also finally finished planning our co-op with some other ladies. At first it looked like we wouldn't have many families at all and we thought that at least we have ample space. During the summer we have had quite a few families joining Anchor co-op and the space is getting smaller, it will be rather cosy this year :) I am looking forward to starting the school year with many new families, some of them for their first year! I am very excited! I am sure it will be a good year, with Science, Art, Literature for young kids and Current News for the older kids and gym for everyone. Though it looks like we have reached the limit for this year and now have to open the waiting list.
What else did we do? Well, there is the Library, Christian Resource Center Library. We had to close the library for a month in the summer because for building maintenance. Now we are open again and the work starts. We had move 126 boxes of books from one location to another. Thank you First Baptist Youth Group! They have done a marvelous job moving the boxes! Now we are getting ready to sell all the books because the library doesn't have so much room anymore. So stay tuned for news about the mega sale!
I finally got my Mac updated, well at least as updated as it will get. Now it talks again with the itunes on my iphone. This was a lot of work, actually more time consuming than work. I ended up going to the genius bar and the guys there were really nice and helped me very quickly. I then spend a very good portion of the day to try to install the airport express so that I can print wireless, but it didn't work - much to my dismay.....genius bar again?
I just want to have it all in place and updated and running for school. I have spend so much time planning and doing so many other projects, that our school planning to a back seat - really far back, something like the 4th row or so....
I am now working over time - yeah, right ;-) I did buy a Kindle for this year and hope that this will help with reading for at least one child, as it has the Text-to-Speech feature. That should be good. We can also take it with us while we are waiting for this and that like music lessons....oh, I still have to find a violin teacher, oh dear. We should also be getting the Apologia books and dvd soon. This year we will try the lecture dvd and see how that works, maybe it is a good option. We are going to do Tapestry of Grace, year 4 - 20th Century - with some added things like Shakespeare, Plutarch, Composer and Art Study. It will be a full year but I think it will be fun.
I am going to write another post soon with our plans for the new school year and which books we will be using :D
