A Slow Day/Evening

 Here it is Thursday of our first full week of homeschooling. Unfortunately, we are still on vacation sleep schedule. I keep hoping if we persevere in getting up and starting school at a set time, we will all eventually start SLEEPING when we go to our rooms. Anyway - up and at it; another full day of school for Melia and me. 

I am NOT heartless, honest. She starts school at 11:00 and has 2 - 3 hours of work to do every day. Heartless would be insisting on an 8:00 a.m. start! I am proud of the work Melia has accomplished this week.   We have finally been assigned a contact teacher. I will meet with her next week. She has some placement tests which she thinks will be helpful. I told her we are simply continuing with the classes she was taking and will figure out the holes, gaps and make up we need to do by spring. 

While we worked upstairs, Stacia took over the study. She had a 5-hour online meeting with Alaska Commission on Post Secondary Education, where she serves as a student rep. She is currently the only student rep on this board. 

I blogged, paid bills and balanced our checkbook. This took extra time as I have a new laptop and needed to find all the files and transfer them all over. I also took care of the ever-growing ash problem so we could build a fire. 

At my doctor's direction I have added workouts into my Bright Line regime. Snow has been sliding off our roof all morning as it has warmed up to the 30's. I stare at the garden and dream of being outside a bit more. LOL  My A1C is coming down as is my weight and my blood pressure is now in the normal range. All good things. 

Those posts are the garden

Allie met with friends for brunch/lunch....and the day marched on. We had been planning all day to go to life group. I had just enough time to take down Christmas decor. Allie came home and helped. Stacia had gone to the college for classes. Suddenly we realized if Mike, Melia and I went to life group Allie would be home alone.  We hadn't realized it was the LAST evening we have at home before she flies back to VA and we really wanted to spend it with her. We switched gears. I put a chicken pot pie in the oven. Stacia came home. We had dinner and played games. 

Stacia, Allie, Melia and Michael 

We are still surprised at how much fun "The Bible is Funny," can be. 

We were sad to miss group again, but this was the perfect way to spend this evening. We were concerned Melia would be disappointed as she isn't used to being home as much as she is now. She said she was glad we stayed home - she didn't feel like going out either.