sorry we have not been writing

Hi, Wilson here. We have been slow on our school through out fall and early winter but were getting better now. Im still doing Keys:Geometry and am now in book 7. I am also reading the Prince and the Pauper. I'm enjoying my science book and trying to work harder on Greek and Latin. We are redoing the girls bed room, the living room, the kitchen and entry way. My birthday was recently here and I'm now 15 years old.

Hi, Rachel here. I have not done much school lately. It's getting colder up here. I'm thinking of starting a buisness for shoveling out people's side walks. For school I am reading Baby Island. I didn't get my new Greek book. In math I'm going a little slow. We can't really play king of the hill yet in the snow, but we can go ice skating on the ice with out falling in(the ice is in the field). Well, that's all for now. bye bye.

Hi everyone, I'm so happy that Chistmas is almost here. Yesterday I went bell ringing for the Salvation Arny at 8:00 with Rosie and then we went to Judy and Robert's. She invited me to the Refuge, thats like a church and a place to eat and other stuff. Robert would like me to try out for the band. So I'm practicing, practicing, practicing so much that my fingers hurt, that makes it hard to type. I am catching up in Math and Science, and trying to keep up with Latin and Greek. These past months I have been writing poems for our church. I enoy it a lot. Last weekend the youth group and I went to a concert in Grandforks. We listened to Toby Mac. I've heard him before on the radio but he sounds better live. For the Chistmas program at our church we are doing "A Night In Bethlehem". We are going to turn the basment into Bethlehem with stores and workshops. I'm going to be a scribe. The snow is here. Now we are "Walking in a Winter Wonder Land", and I LOVE IT. Time to go Bye.

Hi, Rosie here, I've been going slow in Latin and Greek, but I'm going much faster then I did in the Fall. I did some Math this week and History and English. The snow was pouring outside today. I've finished one reading book and am now going on to another. That's all for now, bye.

My turn! Thanks for calling Tonya...it was a bright spot. We are busy with the house as Wilson said. It seems we never get very far. Well, we'll soon finish up in the girls' room (I think I've said that before), and then we will move onto the entry way. So much to do. School has been trying for me, and the kids have been struggling with getting things finished. That said, the kids still love playing piano. I enjoy hearing them practice every day. Eddie is so fun...and really keeps us on our toes. I have been baking bread, trying out some new recipes and tweeking others. Wilson loves Tibetan momos...so I just had to make them for his birthday. As we didn't have any wonton wrappers, and jogging over to the Chinese store at the last moment isn't an option, I made them myself. That was fun...so much in fact that I tried my hand at hand-pulled noodles the next day. That was fun too, even if it wasn't a success. We had quasi-chicken and dumplings. It happens that we had one left over roasted chicken thigh in the fridge and the cut up "noodles" made yummy sliders. Watch out Economides there is a new "economom" in town. The dish was a hit, and as I actually remember (sort of) the "recipe" they all want it again. Dad is looking forward to a huge pot of pinto beans and broth tomorrow. Then he wants chili from the left overs. Can you tell I have been spending time with my cookbooks lately? It's soon time to start dreaming through the seed catalogs too...and I admit I fell asleep with my Ball Canning book last night. Ufda. Now if only I could bake a Greek prepositions pie and Latin conjugations cake for the kids we'd be set.