I didn't realize I hadn't posted on my blog in such a long time!!
The trip to Scotland was everything I could have dreamed!! We spent our first day driving up toward Inverness. We visited Culloden Battlefield, Loch Ness (didn't see Nessie, though) and Cairngorm National Park. Our 2nd day we spent touring the Royal Mile in Edinburgh (lots of shopping!!).
Our 3rd day was consumed by Hubby's running of the Edinburgh Marathon. While he didn't do as well as he hoped, Bean and I were so proud of him just for finishing!! It was his very first time running a marathon and we all learned a LOT! He plans to do another one in October in Frankfurt, Germany. The great thing about that one is that he'll get to sleep in his own bed the night before and eat his regular pre-run breakfast. There's also a Mini Marathon of 4.2 km for Bean to run. This is going to be great!!
The 4th day we drove up to Stirling Castle and looked around there. That afternoon we visited an American-style mall. It was almost like being home except everyone spoke with an accent! LOL
Our last day in Scotland was filled with getting back to Glasgow to get to our flight. We then got to spend 4 hours in Dublin's Airport (but at least we can say we've been to Ireland!).
I found TONS of the Horrible Histories series books at various sites we visited. If I had known how few of them would be available on Amazon, I would have loaded up my suitcase with them!!
I'll try to post some pictures after I get them off the camera.
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Thursday, June 8, 2006
Finished!!
Oh, I am so very proud of my Bean!!! She took her final exam for MUS Epsilon today and scored 100%!! The only one she even came close to missing was as super easy one from a lesson WAY back at the beginning of the year that she thought was WAY too easy to be on the final. WAY TO GO, BEAN!!!
We leave tomorrow for Scotland. I am so excited! This has been a dream of mine for most of my life and I can't believe it's really happening. Did I mention that we are getting to do this trip so Hubby can run in his first marathon? He's so excited about that. Our guest house includes breakfast every day and they serve haggis as a part of it. I'm definitely going to try it (I think). I would feel terrible if I made my once-in-a-lifetime trip to Scotland and didn't even *try* haggis. I would certainly never order it as my main meal, but if it's on the breakfast buffet, I can at least try a bite, right?
We leave tomorrow for Scotland. I am so excited! This has been a dream of mine for most of my life and I can't believe it's really happening. Did I mention that we are getting to do this trip so Hubby can run in his first marathon? He's so excited about that. Our guest house includes breakfast every day and they serve haggis as a part of it. I'm definitely going to try it (I think). I would feel terrible if I made my once-in-a-lifetime trip to Scotland and didn't even *try* haggis. I would certainly never order it as my main meal, but if it's on the breakfast buffet, I can at least try a bite, right?
Wednesday, June 7, 2006
Excitement!!!
Wow! I'm not sure what I'm more excited about: (1) Bean is finishing up MUS Epsilon tomorrow OR (2) we are leaving for Scotland on Thursday!! Okay, I admit the Scotland thing probably has the upper hand, but I am SO proud of Bean's effort in getting through with Math before we leave on our trip.
I had never realized how much her frustrations in Math were damping down her fire for learning, but suddenly since Math is coming SO easily for her now (using her "Momma Pencil"), she's just completely nuts about learning stuff. All I had planned to do this summer was to get through Memoria Press' Famous Men of Rome (there was no room in the "regular" school year and I really wanted us to have a strong historical background before we went to Italy next spring). Now Bean is begging me to let her try her hand at lapbooking. I was poking around the net the other night and found Homeschool in the Woods new Time Travelers History Series. Their first one is about Pirates & Explorers. Well, with Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest coming out next month, Bean was all over that. So, I placed that order today. I just can't believe she's willing to do "school stuff" over the summer.
Today I also placed our order with Sonlight for Core 5. I got a nice little reminder email from them telling me my Club membership is about to expire, so I decided I'd better bite the bullet and click that "order" button. My best buddy, Carla, has already typed up all the reader questions for us, so all I have to do is get the stuff entered into Edu-Track, plug in the timeline and mapping assignments onto the reader question pages and we'll be all set for that.
The next step is to save enough money to get The Easy French. Bean has been begging me for YEARS to let her learn French and now I think I've finally found the right program for us. The step after that involves praying that Christian Kids Explore Earth & Space gets printed in time for us to use it this year. After that, it's just a matter of subscribing to The Boomerang and saving up the money to get IEW. THEN, I think we'll be all set for a while. The Easy French and IEW are both multi-year programs, so while their expense is high, it will amortize (oh my goodness, am I using that correctly? It's been WAY too long since I took accounting in college!) over several years.
Hmmm, looking back over this I think I can see that Bean isn't the only one on fire for homeschooling (and it looks like my checkbook will be the next thing on fire! LOL)
I had never realized how much her frustrations in Math were damping down her fire for learning, but suddenly since Math is coming SO easily for her now (using her "Momma Pencil"), she's just completely nuts about learning stuff. All I had planned to do this summer was to get through Memoria Press' Famous Men of Rome (there was no room in the "regular" school year and I really wanted us to have a strong historical background before we went to Italy next spring). Now Bean is begging me to let her try her hand at lapbooking. I was poking around the net the other night and found Homeschool in the Woods new Time Travelers History Series. Their first one is about Pirates & Explorers. Well, with Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest coming out next month, Bean was all over that. So, I placed that order today. I just can't believe she's willing to do "school stuff" over the summer.
Today I also placed our order with Sonlight for Core 5. I got a nice little reminder email from them telling me my Club membership is about to expire, so I decided I'd better bite the bullet and click that "order" button. My best buddy, Carla, has already typed up all the reader questions for us, so all I have to do is get the stuff entered into Edu-Track, plug in the timeline and mapping assignments onto the reader question pages and we'll be all set for that.
The next step is to save enough money to get The Easy French. Bean has been begging me for YEARS to let her learn French and now I think I've finally found the right program for us. The step after that involves praying that Christian Kids Explore Earth & Space gets printed in time for us to use it this year. After that, it's just a matter of subscribing to The Boomerang and saving up the money to get IEW. THEN, I think we'll be all set for a while. The Easy French and IEW are both multi-year programs, so while their expense is high, it will amortize (oh my goodness, am I using that correctly? It's been WAY too long since I took accounting in college!) over several years.
Hmmm, looking back over this I think I can see that Bean isn't the only one on fire for homeschooling (and it looks like my checkbook will be the next thing on fire! LOL)
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