Has it been 2 weeks????

Oh my, I didn't realize it's been so long since I've been on here!

Whew! It's flown by!

We had a busy week the week of the inauguration. We ended up going to the city for a couple of days to stock up on frozen chicken breasts for John and a few other things. Ike got some new running shoes too. He wants to run 1,000 miles this year. He's been running 5 miles at a time when he runs, but has missed some days, so I'm not sure how he's doing for his target goal of miles each month. I ordered new shoes too, so I'll be glad to get them! I've worn my old ones out. I went to a running store in the States and had my foot "fitted" to find out the best pair for me. They were wonderful so I ordered another pair of the same. I found them half price online, so that really made me happy! I should order another pair!

We were without internet one day this week and discovered the cell phone service was cut off too. We thought it was something here at this house but it turns out it was everywhere. Apparently it had something to do with the military police shutting it down because of drug lords. nice.............I know you're jealous................ John found out it wasn't just us when he went to the grocery store and saw that none of their credit card machines were working at the registers. They told him what was going on. I'm telling you, who needs entertainment when we have this????

Yesterday our water kept going out. It was something here at the house so after ordering a water truck John was able to find out what was wrong. I think something was leaking.

I have a lot of emails to catch up on and people to contact. :-) It's been really busy, so everything just got put aside. With our trip and the day of innaugural things we watched after studying them, we've had to try to really make up for time this week with school. It was kind of a weird week with our school times, but we had an enjoyable week of topics.

We finished our study on primates (very interesting!). We also studied John Quincy Adams' presidency and things going on at that time. We had fun learning about the Erie Canal and looking up real pics online to see what it looks like today.

We'll be kicking off a simple unit on Abraham Lincoln on Monday in honor of his 200th birthday in 12 days. We'll study more in depth when we get to the Civil War time period later this year, but for now we want to focus on his personal info some.

Ike and I have to start listening to Les Miserables this week. I didn't get the book ordered, so I ordered a 12-1/2 hour audio book online. John said it does sound "miserable" but I think it will be very interesting. We're looking forward to it. It's better than waiting until we can get the book. At least this way we can discuss it indepth and not get behind with his literature study. We like reading classics and it will be interesting after spending so much time on Napoleon the first semester.

Well, this got long, so I'll stop.
Just wanted to say we're still alive.
I'll post more later today.