So, a month after school ‘officially’ started, the rest of Hannah’s books finally came in. Note to self: remember to purchase curriculum well before the school season rush next time, mmmkay? We’ve been doing Science, Creative Writing, and Math review. Now her history books have all come in, and she’s ready to move on to new material in Math, so I guess we will officially-officially start school this Monday.

We had a nice week-long celebration of Halloween, starting on Monday with a semi-successful batch of Halloween cookies, then pumpkin carving on Tuesday, more cookies and a youth group costume contest on Wednesday (Hannah came in second place), a trip to the Mount Cranmore Ghoullog on Thursday, and then a viewing of the classic Frankenstein on Friday.

Stephen’s been in Pittsburg since Thursday, at the National Youth Worker’s Convention. I attended three of them when I was a youth leader, and really had an amazing experience each time. I really hope that he’s able to get a lot out of it. They just grow up so fast…*sniff*