This time of year is so crazy.
Last Saturday was the K and M Birthday Bash which was a huge success.
Friday was Sebastian's last PLP meeting at school. He fell behind at the end and will be spending this last week of school trying his best to get caught up. He will have to continue focusing on Math throughout his summer break, Kelley School really did allow him to fall too far behind so we will need to spend all summer getting back on track. We've already selected his curriculum for next year and we have decided to add more traditional textbook based materials to his current online course load. We will be watching to see which method seem to be the best for him. One of the issues we faced starting this program so far into his school year is that we never got adequately prepared for him to work from home. We spent these last 3 months just trying to stay afloat. Next year we will be much more prepared. That preparation includes our recent purchase for a Dell E1705 Laptop so that he can work downstairs at the kitchen table undisturbed and not cramped by my small office area. We fully loaded up the computer with the 120GB HD and Nvidia 256Mb 7900 ToGo graphics card. It will be my Laptop when he is not doing his school work so I wanted to make sure it could do all the things I will want from it.
Saturday we spent out at my Dad's. All the fruit trees are starting to come in season and the first up was Cherries. We must have brought home about 6 lbs of cherries. We've already made Cherry Cobbler and Cherry Pancakes with them. I also baked my first Banana Bread from scratch on Sunday.
Speaking of Sunday, we were invited to a classmate of Madeline's birthday party. The family lives in Redbridge which is one of the premiere neighborhoods in Tracy. It's a gorgeous area with houses built in Traditional, Meditteranean, Colonial, and Bungalow styles. I think what I like most is that all the garages and driveways face towards alleys so from the main streets the neighborhood looks so immaculate and well-groomed. They also planted a lot of old growth trees so there is vast amounts of shade.
With such a busy weekend today, Memorial Day, was about nothing more than sitting around the house. Throughout this week I have school plays, end-of-year Picnics, and to get the house ready for Larry and Kathe (Papa and Nonie) to visit Fri-Sun. The Saturday after that is the Walk for Autism and then the following day I think we need to head to Fresno for a visit with Brie's family there and we are picking up a bedroom set for Madeline while we are there so we will have to rent a trailer from U-haul again.
Add to that Brie and I have set-up Friday night potlucks with several families from Maddy's school. So far we have 5 couples involved. Our first potluck was suppose to be June 1st, but with Larry and Kathe coming we had to push that back. It will be so nice to get together with other families. I especially like that the kids are involved. If I am going to do something without the kids then it is typically going to involve Brie and I being alone. If Brie and I aren't going to be able to be alone then I like to have the whole family involved.
June 5th is Brie's birthday. With everything we have scheduled I am afraid we won't be able to do much for her birthday. But she will get choose the meal of her choice, either to be prepared by me or be taken out.
Posted by John at May 28, 2007 07:26 PM