Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

We received the call from the Dr around 5:30 tonight.  Michael did not crack his ribs.  WHEW!  He’s thrilled since this will mean he will be permitted to skate.   On Sunday during practice the team was doing drills around cones, everyone was going slow, and Michael caught the tip of his boot-wheel on a cone.  […]

HT to  skater CF’s parent for sending me these fine photos of the boys inline speed skating.
The boys have practiced hard.  Look at that focus, that intensity and determination.  And he isn’t falling these day.

They love their sport and I believe it shows.

The boys lean, work on getting down while doing circle drills.
 
They are learning […]

I feel the need to write about something fun, something uplifting, so I’ll not share how the remodeling work is not progressing, nor about noisy testing sites, and ear infections, and……well, off to a better subject.
I shared that last Thursday Mark’s new inline speed skates came in, thanks to some hard work by Tim at […]

We returned last night at 11pm from Hammond, IN and the SO Coaches Clinic — great time, we learned allot, had a few too many late nights but I’m really energized for this coming coaching year.
Everyone I spoke to noticed that we’re homeschoolers and the response was quite positive, particularly from the vendors. […]

Since we started school several weeks ago I told the boys that this morning we would have a special breakfast as a not-back-to-PS celebration. I didn’t / couldn’t call it a First Day of School celebration since it isn’t our first day.
MK and I went out for milk […]

I’m not too surprised by my nerd score, after all, I’m an engineer, and while there are HUGE differences between male and female engineers—don’t even get me started on this, no,no,no—- it is still a nerdy field. Probable why I classically school, I’m just too nerdy not to.
Thanks to Doc over at Sunrise Rants for […]

We have been doing some fundraising this summer for our homeschool Science Olympiad team. The funds will be used to send several moms’ to SO training in October, for the purchase of SO study materials, and hopefully building materials. Some weeks ago we went out and purchased Italian Ice — quite expensive—-and […]

Last week I posted about our vacation to the Adirondacks and mentioned that at some future time I would post about our trip up to Mt Marcy. Well, here it is—
I can’t remember the first time I used my First Aid Kit on a hike, but I imagine it was to cover a blister […]

I am so sore! SK pushed for us to go kayaking and canoing today, and since it looked so beautiful I agreed. I love being outside, and doing something active outside so I’m rather easy to convince to go on some outdoor adventure. We first checked out the Blackbird Creek but I felt […]

It has been a busy week. Monday we finished doing the laundry, putting stuff away, going through the mail, and paying bills. I hate paying bills.Tuesday I went off to the Dr’s to see my blood test results; everything looks great. With clothes and shoes on, and breakfast in my fat belly I […]