It’s 8:11 on Monday morning, and Jeremy and I are the only ones up. (Well, Jeff is also up and at work, but we won’t count him for these purposes!) Yes, that means that the 2010-2011 school year is officially over in the Wilkes household!
We finished up this past Friday, which gets the kids a full free week before their friends are out of school. They decided to start the week by sleeping in well past their usual wake times. Except for Jeremy, of course. He wakes up before 7:00 a.m. no matter what day it is…unless it’s Sunday, and we have to be at church early. On those days, he likes to sleep until 8:00.
He is something else.
In any case, we finished up the second year of a two-year cycle in American history, and we actually discussed major events up to the Persian Gulf War, which happened right before I graduated from high school. World War II was the last event we studied in great detail, but we did hit the Cold War, Korea, Vietnam, the Space Program, the Civil Rights Movement, Watergate, and the Reagan Era before ending with the first Middle East war. It was kind of funny to remind the kids that we were speaking of the FIRST George Bush and that the war now was the SECOND one in that region with heavy US involvement.
Next year, for something completely different, we move on to the Eastern Hemisphere. But, for now, we are done. The kids will do math two days a week, but, beyond that, we will be doing summer.
Jeff arrived home from Thailand on Friday evening with a raging sinus infection, which has not been fun for him. He is hoping to get in to see his doctor today or tomorrow. His trip went well, and he will likely be heading back several times over the summer.
I ran eight miles on Saturday morning in preparation for a 15K for which I have signed up on June 18. The weather has turned warm and humid here, so I’m adjusting to that. I rushed home from running in time to watch Elijah play a practice baseball game against another team from 9:00 to 11:00. We were very proud of how well he did. The coach had him pitch one inning, and he managed to strike one person out! He also got a couple of solid hits, although he never made it on base off of one. His first real game is tonight, so we’ll see how that goes.
On Saturday afternoon, I went to the movies for the first time in forever. Jane Eyre finally made it to a local theater, so I hit a late afternoon matinee. As Jeff didn’t want to see it and Charlotte decided the preview looked too weird for her, I ended up going alone. I was the youngest person in the theater, which was kind of funny. It was as if 15 retired English teachers and their husbands decided to go see this movie. I thought it was well done and enjoyed it, and, before we had gotten too far, I agreed that Charlotte would probably not have liked it much. Really, there’s not a whole lot of action until late in the movie!
And that was our weekend! Hope that yours was good, too!
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