This and That

I can't believe it is May 15th.  Where has the year gone?  Seriously, where?  Dan emailed me his RFO (that's request for orders for you non-military folk).  We have only been waiting on it since February. It's officially official.  We are moving to Charlottesville, VA for the next 3 years.  Orders should come next week.  I guess that means the house hunt needs to move into gear.  I hate this part of moving.  Our report date is Aug 25 and he can report 30 days earlier if we want.  It gives us a good window for finding something.

Jaelyn and I are ready to wind down the school year.  I'm tired.  She's now doing whatever lesson she wants on Study Ladder or IXL for math and Language Arts.  We finished her second huge level in spelling today.  I am going to give her the placement test again to check her progress and then spelling might become games of scrabble and boggle.  We'll keep reading going.  We are currently in the middle of A Wrinkle in Time.  It's a great book that somehow I missed when I was young.  We have 3 more chapters in her science book and we are in the middle of the American Revolution in her second social studies book.  We are working on descriptive stories in writing and I hope to complete the narrative portion before the end of the year.  Next week will be full on test prep for the SAT-10 she has to take the week after.  The other two also have weeks of SOLs coming up.  It looks like the 4th quarter is looking up for Allie.  3rd quarter was hard with her teacher gone a lot.  She had almost straight Cs.  I have seen nothing lower than a B and lots and lots of A - Well Done's coming home.

Dan is deep in thesis writing mode.  He has about 5 1/2 weeks until it's due.  June 25 will be a very wonderful day!