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 [...]

Summer Class Begins

Today was J’s first day of teaching a summer grad class on the Synoptic Gospels. As is typical of summer classes, it will be short (three weeks) but intense.
This would make a logical point for us to begin some homeschooling, and I had originally intended to do that. Instead I have discovered that [...]

Coming into the Home Stretch

Well, J. is off to Ohio for a week’s vacation – oops, I meant conference.  Looking over the schedule, it looks they will be keeping him pretty busy.  So busy I’m not even sure if/when he will get a chance to call home during the week.  Usually when he’s away he calls in the evening, [...]

Waiting For the Other Shoe to Fall

We found out last Friday that the house we are trying to buy appraised out too low for us to get the loan we would need.  We have sent a request to the seller to reduce the purchase price of the house down to the appraised value, but I’m not feeling hopeful about it.  The [...]