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Last Week's Events

By Melissa Markham on August 10, 2008 2:04 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

We had several things going on last week. Rather than do a day by day, I'm just going to share the events of the week.

All week long (Sunday until Friday night) I was working on reformatting my computer, wiping it, reinstalling programs and files and getting everything working again. I did this in my spare moments. It was mostly easy, except for the fact that it took me four times to get Norton working.

Monday morning, Jack began his week long adventure at Central Virginia Community College. They run a week long program in the summer for rising 6th and up students. Jack chose to participate in the Information Technogolies class. Other classes were Nuclear Engineering, Cooking, CSI, Engineering, Medical...all together, about 20 classes. You chose a class and it was 35.00 for the entire week. Jack learned so much and had such a good time and we look forward to participating again next year. He participated in 2 field trips, learned about MP3 files, Adobe photoshop, movies, blogs, searching the web and computer history. Each day I drove 1/2 hour to town and dropped him off, 1/2 hour home, then went back again at 1:00.

On our visits into town, we ran errands. One day I signed up for a paralegal class at the community college that I will be taking this fall. I am very excited about being a student again. One day, we did errands at Wally world, one day at Sam's and one day at Food Lion. We had a bunch of stuff that needed to be purchased after being gone for two months. We ate lunch out at Golden Corral one day and took our neighbor Ashley with us.

Between all of this, I spent time trying to declutter the house and clean it. I didn't get to the kids rooms and playrooms, but the rest of the house looks good. We spent Tuesday afternoon visiting friends that we hadn't seen since March. Then Thursday afternoon, my mom came and visited us (after picking Jack up from CVCC).

There were calls to be made, laundry was done, bills were paid, mail was answered, and a fundraising meeting at church was rescheduled.

Friday night my neighbors came over and we watched Mothman Prophecies and What Lies Beneath. Jack had a friend spend the night. Saturday I got odds and ends caught up, watched some of the second season of Lost, and then my neighbors came back from a visit. We played Rook and then watched The Ruins (horrible, gruesome, awful!).

Today was church, then the fundraising meeting, then some homeschool friends that we hadn't seen for a year came to visit this afternoon. Katrina and Annie had so much fun, Katrina went home with them to spend the night. Jack's friend Brandon came for the afternoon and is spending the night. Ashley and I played a game of Rook and now we are watching the Other Boleyn Girl.

Phew...and next week promises to be busy as well!