Sadly,

My son did not pass his CLEP test, so he, as yet, has no college credit, but he's only 15. We'll try again at some point. He did know the material that he studied pretty well, but it wasn't the same material that was on the test, unfortunately. Next time, I'll be more careful in what I pick out for him to study from. Mom is learning along with him in this whole process.

Come to think of it

I don't think the Humane Society was a really good place to take a field trip, like we did Friday with 4H. We saw this really cute, very big, very furry black dog named Winston. My daughter just thought he was the cutest thing. Now she keeps looking at me and saying Winston and then giving me the sad puppy dog eyes look. Um, no. We don't need another dog. We have 3 dogs and 3 cats! Fortunately, Winston is in the no kill section (?) of the shelter so we don't have to live with that guilt. The lady who gave us the tour said that these were the dogs considered adoptable and that they had a lot invested in these dogs, etc., and that they wouldn't show us the animals who are not so lucky. (sad!) Anyway, if you want a dog, he's available. Look at that face!

Today.

Today my oldest son has his first CLEP test, in American History. I really don't think he has studied enough. I got him some cards a couple of months ago that he was supposed to use to study but he hasn't used them much, instead he's been watching a DVD on the presidents and reading a book called All You Need to Know about American History Homework. I studied with him as much as I could this weekend. Hopefully, he'll retain a lot of the information and get a passing grade. He was a good test taker when he was in elementary school and hopefully he still is.

Our 'blank' week sure didn't feel very relaxed.

We went all kinds of places and then today, I realized I'd kind of overscheduled. We had the social worker meeting at 9:00 a.m., a 4H field trip to the Humane Society at 10:00 and a podiatrist visit at 2:30. I was in the van most of the day, it seems like. Now I'm supposed to be working, but I am tired, tired, tired, so I don't know how much I'll get done. Probably not much.

How the dogs did.

When we went on vacation, we took our dogs to a lady who does not generally do dog-sitting, but she is a friend of my brother and he knew that she had a little kennel in her backyard. After meeting the dogs when we dropped them off, she decided that since they were housetrained and seemed reasonably friendly, she'd keep them in the house with her dog. Apparently though, it didn't work out. She called me to let me know that she wouldn't be home for the pickup time and that the dogs would be out back in the kennel. When I asked her how they did, she said "Freckles is not my friend. She does not like me." Apparently Freckles tried to bite her. I guess we'll be scheduling in advance at a regular dog boarding facility next time because of little miss grouchy. Max, of course, was a gentleman.

What day is this?

We decided to go to Family Swim time at the pool after all. Often there is a line when we go, but tonight, the entry area was deserted. I wondered aloud "It is Wednesday isn't it?" Then I said "If it's Tuesday, we're going to Baskin Robbins!"
(dollar scoop night). But, then the kids informed me that it is Wednesday (darn!) so we went into the pool. While we were walking my daughter discussed ice cream and going to the pool, 2 ways to cool off in summer. She said, "The pool is better because it cools you off all over, but ice cream tastes a lot better than pool water." Yes, I agree. Not that I tasted the pool water in the last few decades!

Nothing.

We have nothing on our calendar for today. Hopefully I didn't forget to write something down. It's nice. We've got some cleaning to do and some work to do. Max decided to wake me up at 5:30 today so that I could get an early start and to let him out so he could bark at NOTHING. I feel like I have recovered from the vacation tiredness, but now I'm just plain sleepy from getting up earlier than I am used to. I should read Max this article on sleep. Actually it's on kids and sleep, but I'm sure it has similar ill effects on adults. I think I'll just wait until he's asleep and make a loud noise!

It is family swim night at the city pool tonight but I don't know if we will go. I doubt the kids will remember and I don't know if I'll remind them. ;-)

Some nice blank days.

I really didn't plan it but we've got almost this entire week blank on our calendar. We've got a social worker visit on Friday for foster care, but other than that, not much of anything. It's nice, especially after our action packed vacation, not to mention the birthday party right before it. I haven't gotten back into my homeschool planning and looking at the Rainbow Resource catalog yet but I will. We are just planning to enjoy summer for the next few weeks. We'll enjoy it more if our A/C unit will stop freezing up and quitting on us. I guess the heat is just too much for it?

This is a picture of the birthday/pool party cupcakes. It's supposed to look like a pool. It was a team effort. My daughter and I baked the cupcakes. I did the basic frosting and put the cookies around the edge of the 'pool' and she and my son put the Teddy Grahams in the pool and put bathing suits and sunglasses/swim goggles on them.