What We've Been Up To - 11/4/11

• walked, ran, played in the beautiful fall weather this week
• read:  The Frost is on the Punkin by James Whitcomb Riley, The Creed in Slow Motion, Exploring the World of Physics, A Little History of the World, Son of Neptune, My Side of the Mountain.  Rick is reading a biography of Steve Jobs and keeps regaling us with stories.  What a peculiar fellow!
• Ate lots of Halloween candy and lots of carry out this week.  Not a good food week!
• Focused on math, handwriting, Latin
• Becky is writing a novel!
• Sean continues to write comic strips with his friend
• Josh wrote an essay for his Shakespeare class on Much Ado About Nothing
• Josh went to Chemistry class (got 92 on his test), Latin (100% on quiz), didn't do so well on his Precalc homework - needs to rework that, went to CLC, practiced running; will be in a race this coming Sunday.
• Sean's getting a math tutor and a drawing tutor, it looks like!  Yippee.  Keeping him busy is so very important to his emotional health.  
• Josh and Sean took a long walk yesterday morning.  Josh was cheering Sean up.  Sean came home in a much better mood.
• I really like being able to work one on one with Sean.  Need to get a better working relationship with Becky.
• Had a meeting with Aquinas Learning staff trying to regroup after our blow last week.  
• Becky seems to be enjoying Life of Fred.  I have to sit down and read it too, to see what's going on.
• Also need to catch up with Sean in Journey to the Center of the Earth.
• Josh is in class all day today from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00.  He's going to a Chem lab early, then a regular Chem class, then off to Shakespeare which usually ends at 2:30 but those that want to can stay and watch Much Ado About Nothing.
• Tonight Rick and I are going to dinner to celebrate our 23rd anniversary (which is actually tomorrow).  I'm hoping the actual day is just a relaxed, family day.