Update on Swimming

Well, at half-way through the lessons, it is obvious that neither B. nor D. will actually be swimming by the end of them.  However, they are both much more comfortable in the water now, and particularly more comfortable stretched out in a swimming position.  B. looks like she might be pretty close to having beginning [...]

Crash Course in Swimming

B. and D. started swimming lessons today.  The lessons will be an hour a day, five days a week, for two weeks.  It’s hard for me to believe that B. and D. could actually be swimming in that short of a time, but we’ll see.  They both learned to ride their bikes in a really [...]

Happy Birthday, Teresa!

Wow, I can’t believe my little baby is a year old already!  (Neither can anyone else, come to think of it – probably because she’s so tiny still.)  She has been a mile-marker baby in many ways.  She started by being our first unassisted birth, and went on to be our first girl who hasn’t [...]

Going back to college

After eight years since my last college class, I’ve gone back to college, this time as a freshman.  I’m taking Latin along with the freshmen here.  Even though I’ve already had two years of Latin in college, and some of the other students had had a year or two of Latin in high school, the [...]