Finally…. an update

I can’t believe how quickly time passes.  We have been quite busy, just doing the daily rouine of life and school.

We school year around, so we didn’t finish our curriculum until mid-July.  We completed ECC (Exploring Countries and Cultures by My Father’s World).    We really enjoyed it.  We learned so much about many different countries.  

We took one week for summer vacation.   During this week, I crammed to get ready for the new shcool year.      Our goal the last few years, has been to start school for the new year before we head to Michigan for our annual family camping trip. 

The camping ‘trip’ is always the first weekend of August.  It is not really a trip, because we are camping in the woods on my parent’s property.    It is a trip for us because we have to drive from South Carolina to Michigan to get to my parent’s house.  It starts with a picnic with extended family and friends from my parent’s church invited.     Everyone is invited to stay overnight in tents, but only about half stay.   It is a wonderful day of relaxing, talking, playing in the water (for the children) and lots of horseshoe games (for the men).   The water is a spring feed creek that varies in depth from a couple inches to several feet but it is always VERY cold.

We completed 1 week of school before heading to Michigan and 1 week after getting back.   So, we have completed 2 weeks of Creation to the Greeks.