School Days

Now that the holidays have passed, we are just plugging away at school.  When it's so cold outside (such as the days that don't make it above freezing!), it's nice to work in the family room with the fire going.  But there are still days when we have to run around and deposit the kids at their different activities. 

Despite the hum drum of routine, we do have spring to look forward to, and an exciting spring it is going to be.  We are headed to Japan for seven weeks!  Yes, you read that right, seven weeks.  Chris will just go for three weeks, because someone has to work and hold down the fort here.  And actually Michaela is going to stay for a total of three months!  More about that later, but for now we have good reason to be working away at making sure our school work is getting done.

This was just a little chemistry experiment gone awry earlier in the week.  Pyrex can be replaced, the cook top was not damaged, and thankfully no glass shards were found imbedded in Michaela!

I really am proud of Michaela and the way she has independently handled her high school work.  For one she is not a science lover, as her brothers are, but she has done a great job of working through labs and other requirements.  It's hard to believe that she has less than a year and a half left before graduation!

In other events of the week, Johanna and Ami continue to thoroughly enjoy their gymnastics.  Their skills have improved greatly and they would spend hours at the gym if time and money allowed.