Heading Back to Hammanskraal

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It is Wednesday afternoon and we are getting ready to head back to our South African home. We all went swimming earlier today and now the kids are soaking up a few more TV shows while Darin and I get all of our stuff packed up. It has been really hot here the past few days, around 100*F. It has been a total pleasure to have a swimming pool to swim in during the day and air conditioning to keep us cool at night.

We're planning to continue our "holiday" until Monday. We'll spend the rest of the week getting unpacked and reorganized, going grocery shopping, visiting with friends and getting ready to home school again. I was able to find some information online and I am cautiously optimistic that our second half of the school year will be better than the first.

We'll work on doing a better job keeping our blog updated as well. Tyson already has an idea for his next report involving paper airplanes, so stay tuned for that! Hopefully posting by email will work out easy peasy, but please drop a few comments our way so that we know things are showing up : )

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pjvs50@gmail.com said…
Give us a hundred degrees-it poured here all day and was chilly-I am eager for spring which comes in June here but every day is a gift from God-do keep up the blogs and the kids reports. Friends tell me how they miss your ramblings. Love ya Mom
January 4, 2012 at 10:57 PM
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