He's home :)

Paul had to go to California for 4 days. It was a trip sprung on him last minute..anyways they were meeting to plan out their Annual Training for June. I really missed him this time around. It was hard to stay motivated around here. I always miss him, but it just seemed worse this time. Not sure why. Thursday and Friday we did school. We normally don't school on Friday, but Paul had taken Wednesday off, so we just did some minimum work that morning and then spent the day with him. So since he was gone on Friday, we took the opportunity to catch up. Worked pretty well, and the kids were okay with it. I thought they might protest, but I told them that this week would already be short because of co-op.

Abby had her last match for Bible Quiz on Saturday. She did so well! She was determined to place in the top 10 for an individual ribbon. She worked really hard at her memorization(to the point I had to have her put it away a couple of times because she was getting frustrated). She ended up in 9th place! She quizzes on a "B" team and they combined them with "A" teams because there weren't enough teams in either category. So she was quizzing against the best! Next year she will quiz with Teen Bible Quiz. She's nervous about it being harder, but I think she can do it!

Abby also starts guitar lessons again this afternoon. She is quite excited. This was one of her Christmas presents. She took a few lessons when she was about 8. She enjoyed the music but the teacher and class set up really didn't work for her. She needed more one on one teaching and we just didn't have the money to fund those type of lessons. I've been looking for awhile for something affordable and finally came across a teacher who was looking to fill some daytime lesson spots and offered them to homeschoolers for a discount. He comes with high recommendations from quite a few people in our support group.

Jacob has been reading(he got so many books for Christmas!) and working on some models. He's trying to finish one up so he can start building his engine. He's hoping the weather will hold okay for awhile as he wants to get in a bike ride with his dad on Friday. Abby and I are going to go to homeschool swim at the Y, Jacob wanted to do something with dad and picked a bike ride. I think he's been missing his bike with all the cold weather, snow, etc.

Well, I need to get off for now and get some other things done. I did my weigh in and now have to go figure out how to move my ticker at the top :) You'll have to watch it to know what my number was :)

Be blessed!