Weekly Preview and Review

I decided it would be better for Emily to wait and take the ACT in December, with a lot more preparation. So, she is NOT doing that today.

Saw David a couple times this week - once at karate and once at his work. He is doing very well at work and loves working with customers. Can you believe it?

Emily loved the college night. Talking to the college representatives about their programs really helped her visualize what she might do. She is interested in photography and writing.

10/27 Sunday - Church
Monday - Work 4, Karate
Tuesday - Work 4
Wednesday - Work 4, Church
Thursday - Work 4, Writing Class, Karate, Trick or Treat, Bob off
Friday - Work 4, NaNoWriMo begins, Fall Sports Awards night
Saturday - Bob works

Weekly Preview and Review

Soccer is over, except that James' team has a parent vs. player scrimmage Tuesday night. We aren't sure if we will go to that or not.

Suzy and I have volunteered in the church nursery twice, but we have had no children come in either time. Hope we do soon!

10/20 Sunday - Church
Monday - Work 4, Karate
Tuesday - Work 4, Scrimmage?
Wednesday - Work 4, Church
Thursday - Work 4, Writing Class, Karate, College Fair (E)
Friday - Work 4, Co-op
Saturday - ACT (E)

Emily has a week focused on the future, with a college fair on Thursday and the ACT on Saturday. I expect that the ACT will be difficult for her and this will be a "practice" event for her rather than scores that will get her into college. She will take it again, maybe in December, maybe early next year. And again, if needed.

Weekly Preview and Review

James went away for the weekend for a Royal Rangers campout. Emily had TFC all day on Saturday. Suzy spent the night at a friend's house Saturday and had her last soccer game earlier in the day. Bob had lunch with David on Saturday. I went to dinner with friends and then watched Shakespeare on DVD. Got the kids all back (except David whom we miss!) by early afternoon on Sunday, then Bob and I went to the massage school for therapeutic massage. Nothing like it!

10/13 Sunday - Church, Massage (LB)
Monday - Work 4, Karate
Tuesday - Work 4, Soccer-Away (J)
Wednesday - Work 4, Church
Thursday - Work 4, Writing Class, Karate
Friday - Work 4
Saturday - TFC (E)

This is a fairly empty week for us- just the regular commitments and James' last soccer game.

Weekly Review and Preview

The highlight of last week was our field trip to GVSU Shakespeare Festival and ArtPrize. Wow! The play was really well-acted by most of the characters, which included a couple seasoned actors as well as as large number of college students. Much Ado About Nothing is humorous and entertaining and even our Shakespeare newbies enjoyed it. Afterwards the audience gathered for a box lunch. The actors always come in to mingle with the student attendees. What fun to discuss sword fight choreography and Shakespearean villains with these young people! Then we headed to ArtPrize with only a vague idea of where to go. We started at DeVos Hall and then walked to the B.O.B. We probably saw a couple hundred works of art, probably only 15% of the art on display throughout the city. But we were amazed!

Because of this field trip, I did not have writing class this week and we also missed karate that day.

10/6 Sunday - Church
Monday - Work 4, Karate
Tuesday - Work 4, Soccer (EJS)
Wednesday - Work 4, Church
Thursday - Work 4, Writing Class, Karate
Friday - Work 4, Co-op, Campout (J)
Saturday - Soccer - LAST DAY (ES), Campout (J), TFC (E)

Suzy and I volunteered in the church nursery today for the first time. No kids showed up. I think that's sort of normal, but hopefully more kids will be there next time. We will go in again in two weeks. Suzy really wants to work with kids. Since no one was there but us, we sorted all the toys and tossed out some broken things.

This week is the last week of soccer for the girls and James will be done next week. OH, I am SOO happy about that. Thirteen straight years of fall and spring soccer is wearing me down. Suzy is a soccer whiz, however, so I won't be taking a break anytime soon.

James is going to the fall Royal Rangers campout this weekend, and he invited a friend to go along. He LOVES the campouts. Emily has a TFC concert on Saturday which will take her away for most of the day.

Other than that, it's a week with nothing out of the ordinary - just the regular soccer, karate, writing class, co-op, etc.... No field trips, park days, extra meetings, or anything of that sort. At least not that I know of yet. I do hope to get together with friends one evening.