Our weekend in Colorado

It's been an exhausting but productive weekend at the Loveland, Colorado homeschool convention. My feet ache and my throat is scratchy from talking so much, but as always I find it so rewarding to visit with other homeschool parents about Sonlight!

My older daughter worked with me in the booth today. She especially enjoys the little ones who come through the vendor hall with their parents. And most of them were excited to dig in my candy bucket, serving themselves a single piece of candy with the little shovel! Too cute!

Now we are relaxing in our hotel one more night before heading home tomorrow. Lyle is thrilled that this hotel has the Speed channel so he can watch the Formula 1 auto-racing this weekend. He's a huge race fan, but we don't have cable at home, so this is a real treat for him.

One thing that has me completely befuddled is needing to set our clocks forward to Daylight Saving Time tonight. But we're in the Mountain time zone. So when we go back home to the Pacific time zone, we'll have to set our clocks back again. I have no idea what time it will be then! I guess I'll just look at my cell phone. It seems be able to keep up with the current local time, even if I can't...

Hope you're having a great weekend!

The Rockies in Winter

We took the scenic route over the Rockies on our way to the homeschool curriculum fair in Loveland, Colorado today. Since it is still officially winter, there is plenty of snow at the higher altitudes. We saw lots of skiers and snow-boarders out enjoying the end of the season. 

We saw "wildlife crossing" signs for moose, elk, and big horn sheep. But the only actual wildlife we saw were big horn sheep! Well, the kids saw saw some anyway. I was on the phone at the time and missed them! We were also fascinated with several herds of antelope we saw along the road in Wyoming.

It was sunny and mild, and no snow on the ground, by the time we got to Denver. We stopped by Sonlight to pick up my convention supplies, and then on up to Loveland to our hotel. Even though it's a "business trip" we are enjoying a "pre-spring break" as a family!

Homeschool Convention Season Begins

This spring marks my 10-year anniversary as a Sonlight Curriculum Consultant! This year I will be hosting the Sonlight booth at five different homeschool conventions. My first event is this weekend in Loveland, Colorado. My family is looking forward to the scenic drive over the Rocky Mountains. As you know, we love road trips-- whether for business or pleasure or, in this case, both! It will be a fun getaway!

Sonlight has some really great changes in store for our booths this year, and I am very excited to get to share them! As a special "thank you" to conference attendees, Sonlight is allowing me to offer a $15 coupon to each family who stops by my booth! Also, if you bring a friend who is new to Sonlight, I will have an extra small gift for you. These will be available while supplies last, so be sure to stop by early. You will also have a chance to win my drawing for a nice basket of books and other goodies! If you homeschool in Colorado, I hope to see you there!

Happy 45th Anniversary...

...to the world's best parents!

I love you!

Supper or Dinner?

Do you call the evening meal "dinner" or "supper"? Being from the south, it's supper to me! I just can't get used to people calling their evening meal "dinner". Dinner is a big meal in the middle of the day... like Sunday Dinner or Thanksgiving Dinner! Otherwise, we have lunch in the middle of the day and supper in the evening.

We watched an episode of The Andy Griffith Show the other day that has me baffled. It's "Man in a Hurry"... wonderful episode! A business man is passing through Mayberry on a Sunday and has car trouble, so he ends up stuck in the little town most of the day. He arrives just as church is letting out, so Andy goes with him to the filling station to see what can be done about his car. The mechanic isn't there, so they have to go to his house. He refuses to work on Sunday, so they go back to Andy's house where Aunt Bee serves "supper." I naturally assumed it was the evening meal and that all that running around took the whole afternoon.

However, after "supper" Andy and Barney go sit on the porch (in the daylight) and sing with Andy's guitar for awhile, then Barney says he's going to go home and take a nap, then go to Thelma Lou's for a little TV. I wondered why he would take a nap in the evening after supper! Aunt Bee surely meant "dinner" when she was serving it earlier. But that's not all! Pretty soon Gomer comes along and says Goober can fix the man's car, so they go off to do that. When they come back with the car, Aunt Bee is disappointed that the man is going to leave because she is making ice cream. So the man decides to stay the night. In the next scene, Barney is back on the porch with Andy and their guest. It is dark now, and Andy and Barney decide to go downtown to get a bottle of pop.

If they did all that after "supper" I gotta wonder how early they ate supper? It's just bugging me! I think they should have rightly called it "dinner"!