my brother got an A in the class that the teacher screwed him on his group presentation in. so he's just gonna leave it at that ( Read more... )

my little brother, who was homeschooled his entire life (and therefore used to doing everything himself), is finishing up his first semester of college. he had this group assignment for a psychology class, a presentation of some sort, and there were 5 kids in the group. it was due today and he was the only one of the 5 to show up. which apparently ( Read more... )

Dietrich was banging on the keyboard cause I forgot to lock the closet we keep the computer in. I go to chase him out, and I see this pop up screen: "are you sure you want to delete the file 'nursing school' and send all of its contents to the recycle bin?" uh, no. no I'm not. thanks for asking!

yesterday we were out all day. we realized that it was chris's last actual day off (aside from tomorrow) until, oh, christmas break. starting sunday, he's got a rigid schedule of work 3 days a week (12 hour shifts) and school 4 days a week. not sure what tomorrow will bring, maybe just laying around doing nothing (in a good way!) but yesterday, we ( Read more... )

I'll be in St. Augustine, a city in florida I've never seen before. Chris's brother is getting married on the 17th. we managed to get a car rental, a minivan at that, for $20/day. the in-laws are supposed to secure lodgings; hopefully they did ( Read more... )

...said Germaine. she and Adri (my niece) had Strawberry Shortcake coloring books.

Linus had the Confessions of St. Augustine. I guess he's a bit more advanced.

Linus likes to "read" Calvin & Hobbes comic books. he pours through them, occasionally pointing things out and telling me what they are. when he points at Calvin, he says "me". um...

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in other news, you know you're in a great class when your teacher emails you something entitled "GER-101 STUDY GIUDE".

chris is starting nursing school in the spring!

and anyone who prays, send one up to St. Anthony for us, ok? we leave in about 1.5 hours to a COWBOY themed birthday party, and I can only find 3 boots :P yet I count 4 feet between my 2 toddlers...

p.s. Dietrich just ate a photograph of himself. hm.

my little brother, who has been homeschooled his entire life, is currently taking driver's ed. it's the first time he's ever been in a classroom setting, and they have to read aloud from the text book. after the first night, I asked how it was, and he complained that the other kids don't know how to pronounce any words that have more than 4 letters ( Read more... )