Post-Grad Life

I have officially graduated!!!!

Saturday, May 28, 2011 I graduated from homeschool high school with a life-long friend. It went very well.

There was a slide show of our lives, and we did a Praise and Worship time at the end before we went to eat and fellowship.

There was a chocolate fountain, two different kinds of cakes, three different dips with chips, home-made mints, an assortment of nuts, and three beverages.

For my presents, I, of course, received a rather large chunk of money. Along with that, I was given a three piece suitcase set, an iPad and leather case for it, a very cool, very big pocket knife that has a seascape with a boat on both sides, a BIG box of chocolates and a very nice journal and a toiletry bag. I love all of my gifts, if anyone gave me anything, I would like to say here: Thank you for your gifts and your presence at a huge moment of my life.

Now, I can no longer say that I am homeschooled. L But there are bigger and better thing that are ahead of me. My best days are ahead of me, as Danny Gokey’s single from his first album says.

I have finished up with a lot of things that I will no longer be attending as a full student. I finished orchestra and choir and private music lessons. I am sad that they finished, but I am excited at the same time as well. Is that a bad thing? Now if I ever go back it will be to visit with friends.

The VBS decoration process has started back up. This will be my first VBS not being homeschooled. It’s sad, but exciting.

As I talk of VBS, it reminded me of summer and swimming and that we opened our pool a few weeks ago and I had my first swim of this year today!! Also that I go a new swimsuit.

This past semester I have been taking a class with my grandmother. It is a class for Swedish Weaving and Huck Toweling. I have been enjoying it very much. It will be going through the summer and into the fall.

I will be going to college in the fall. I will be going for English.

I think that is it for now. I will attempt to keep up with posting now that school is over and that it is summer.

First Post of the New Year!!!

Well, here we are in a New Year. Which means to some a start to a new life.

Christmas went very well. I got the Pirates’ trilogy. A book of new knitting patterns, which I started in that day. I have finished one and am on my second one. But you have to realize that I go for days without even touching it. If I do, it can vary from working on it form 30 minutes to a few hours. All of us kids got a $14 music download gift card from Wal mart. Which I used to get the music from Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Us four older girls all got a $50 gift card to Maurices. We went and used them Saturday.

This is how my New Year started.

It ended up that we got three weeks off of school. We started officially back up last week.

Orchestra and choir and lessons all started back up and in full swing last week. We were supposed to have started back up with orchestra and choir two weeks ago, but we had lot of snow fall that week, so we didn’t go.

But we did get our new Federation pieces last Friday. All but one in Beethoven and one in Brahms.

That, I guess, has to be all of the new news that I can think of at the moment.

Numerous Activites.

Since the last time that I posted, several things have happened.

1. My dad had his B-day.(I won't tell how old he is.)
2. My youngest brother had his 7th B-day.
3. The girl that I teach tatting to, finished her Christmas medallion and we have moved on to a doily.
4. I went and helped at a friends horse sale.
5. We are soon to get our new Christmas music for orchestra and choir.
6. The harp lesson that I teach is going very well.
7. Music lessons are going along very well.

I am very excited for everything that is going on.

I am still enjoying the Brahms theory class that I am taking. I have been learning things that I didn’t know a few months ago.

My driving practice is going well, I guess. My parents might disagree for some of the times that they rode with me. There were some almost scary times. I don’t know how much I have at the moment, but I have at least much more than 3 hours done. Probably more like 5 or 6 hours, but I’m not sure how much I have exactly.