Weekly Wrap UP 7/19/19--Summer activities

We are now on our summer schedule.  MarioFan is officially done with his 9 grade work (although I do have one more art post to write to wrap it all up:).  I plan on keeping it very light for the next 4 weeks because I am burning out and need a break, so does MarioFan!

MarioFan is taking this month off from most things except for the following activities:

I signed him up for a Spanish class with outschool to keep what he learned last year fresh in his mind.  It is only a week long for an hour a day.  I will probably consider doing a Spanish online tutor weekly to help him stay fresh with last years class so he is ready to enter into Spanish two in September.

A local tech school is offering a free computer security camp for a week for 4 hours a day this month.  MarioFan decided he wanted to check it out and see if it would interest him as a possible career.

MarioFan will continue with Piano lesson through the summer this year and that will be one night a week.

I am very busy working on next year plans and putting together his 10th grade curriculum.  We will probably gradually get started by mid August so we are in full swing by the time Co-op begins.


Firedrake had three goals to accomplish during the last 5-6 weeks of summer.  One is the pass her driving test.  She is working very hard and has well surpassed her needed 45 hours on the road driving (including 10 hours night time) so we just need to schedule a date to take the driving portion of the test.  Second we are getting her enrolled in the local community college.  We are making an appt to meet with a admission coordinator next week.  My Husband and I are scrambling to make a high school transcript. She then needs to decide which two classes she wants to take next  semester.  She is only 4 classes away from graduating!!!  Lastly Firedrake will be looking for a job, hopefully one that she can continue to have after school begins in September.  She has narrowed down the sites she doesn't want to work for in our little town, which doesn't leave many opportunities but we will see what happens. She has already filled out an application online for two places so now we wait to see if she is called up for an interview.    We are very late looking for jobs due to a busy month of June, but we are hopeful something will turn up.  We are only looking for her to work 15 to 20 hours a week since she will need to balance her college classes.

In addition to the above goals Firedrake is continuing with her private tutoring for piano and Japanese weekly!

We are also having some fun days where we are going to six flags amusement park!

Haven't gotten in as many trips here as we usually do by this time of the year due to the constant storms in our area.

Also finding a few movies to see on a rainy days:)

Spending some time at the pool 

I have also had a little bit of time working in my glass studio completing a few new pieces

New garden art displayed

Working on a new window art pieces.  My husband says we are running out of windows to display my work,  I say there is no such thing as too much stained glass:)

I got to get MarioFan signed up for his Co-op Spanish class this week, They also have martial arts and a psychology class that I am considering but the times those classes are offered  are not convenient so not sure yet if we will enrolled.