Catching up!

We had several field trips this year already that I never took the time to write in my blog, so I will do that today.  We've been busy homeschooling during the week, and skiing every weekend. This winter has been exceptionally cold and snowy, which is great for skiers.  To top all that off, we also got the stomach bug in February.

On Friday Jan.31, we attended laser tag for a boring class on lights and optics. A worker presented a slide show on a screen that explained how light travels. She asked questions, but none of the kids would raise their hands to answer. The slide show did not interest me at all, but the laser tag games made my day. The big laser tag arena was dark and foggy. The fog helped us see the lasers so that we could aim and hide. The arena had two floors and a lot of walls so that we could hide. There were mirrors on the walls, so that we could shoot the mirrors and the laser would bounce off the mirror and hit a person.

The first week of Feb. we got the stomach bug. We were throwing up all week. We had to take a bowl into our beds for several nights. Charles got sick first, then Asia and then pretty much all of the family the only one who didn’t throw up is my brother Connor.  What a horrible week for us!

               After we got over the stomach bug, we drove to Sky Zone in Greece, a thirty-minute drive. Sky Zone is a place that is an indoor trampoline park that just opened up last month. A homeschooling family reserved the whole gym for a homeschool group. There were over a hundred homeschoolers there, although it was not an educational field trip. This is the first field trip that we’ve taken that did not have learning involved. I played dodge ball on the trampolines and basketball too. We jumped for a full hour.  We got a lot of exercise, but Conner complained the next day that his legs hurt.

               This winter we have been able to go skiing every weekend. We ski at Swain Ski Resort. We used to be at taekwondo every Saturday, but now that we don’t take taekwondo anymore, we have more time to ski.  I usually go skiing with Connor, while Dad takes Leo and Sam. A few weeks ago, I fell and hurt my knee. The ski patrol came and took me down the hill on a toboggan.  The ski patrol put a splint on my leg. The next day, I limped around, but it did feel better in a few days. We were supposed to go to Holiday Valley on February 3, but that week is when we got sick. We have rescheduled the Holiday Valley ski day for a day in March.

               It’s been a busy year so far for the Peters. I will try to write more regularly so that I don’t have to spend so much time trying to remember all that happened in the past month.  The foster children will be moving out soon, and we will have less noise in the house. That will be better for homeschooling.