2 posts tagged “school”
We had a nice week off with George last week after he finished his grueling 60+hrs./7day per week 2 month proposal schedule. He and the boys finished our water-softener drainage system, and we went for a couple of walks, ran errands, and mostly relaxed.
Jordan is taking his last college final today for his Freshman year! He thinks he did well.
Jared and Ben are finished with their community college calculus class. Jared got the outstanding student award for calculus (out of 12 students:) and Ben got second! They still have their senior year of homeschool to finish hopefully by the end of this month. They also have accepted their scholarships to UD and UTA respectively. Ben has some upcoming math placement testing and orientation. Jared just has paperwork until his orientation in September.
Jeremy and Rachel are finishing 8th grade and will be in high-school next year!
Rebecca is finishing 2nd grade.
Everyone is looking forward to their friends, James, John and Anna coming over to screen Prince Caspian weekend after next. Wish our Pharr friends could make it for that too!
George had to go back to work today, and the kids and I are back at school. Today was also trash day. Life is mostly work, isn't it.
Yesterday for Theophany and the Blessing of the Waters, I decided to vacuum the leaves off the bottom of the pool. Despite constant skimming of floating leaves, many sink to the bottom. I vacuumed them a couple of months ago and have been waiting for the trees to empty themselves before I did it again. A lot of water gets wasted in the process. I need to get a different net next time and see if one with more of a collection area will do better than my flat one so that I wont have to use the pump and tubes that are smaller than collections of acorns, sticks, decaying leaves and web worms. Thankfully George was available to help me this time as he had to keep disconnecting the hose to clear the clogs. Yesterday was also unseasonably warm or else it would have been a miserable job.
I haven't swam (swum?) in the pool for a couple of years as it's hard to get in and out of an above ground pool, but just seeing the blue circulating water out my window as well as messing with keeping it clean is relaxing and therapeutic. There is something special about water, and I'm glad the Orthodox celebrate Christ's making it that way.
