Feb. 21st 2009 Vacation is over!

Well, our February break is over!! We are back from skiing and ready to learn. Interestingly, Connor has it in his head that he needs to "make-up" the work he missed during the Feb. vacation. Although it is a weekend, as soon as we returned home from the ski resort on Saturday Connor dove back into his school work with great fervor. Austin and Xiao don't feel that they missed a week's worth of work, but Connor feels the pressure (for some reason). He woke up at 7am this morning and immediately proceeded to "catch-up" on his math pages. As I write, I can hear him practicing Chinese with Xiao. Poor Xiao has spent a great deal of his time in the USA as a private tutor. I guess I'd feel worse about that, but I remind myself that our grocery bill went from $150 a week to $400 a week since Xiao arrived!!!! Tutoring the boys in Chinese and math makes it all worthwhile.