Bailey Family

 I never did get around to that new year's post, did I? I planned to sum up 2020, give a turn-of-the year update, and include holiday pictures. Seeing as how it's a month past Christmas now, and I'm just getting around to that, let me summarize and then skip to January's happenings! I think the "Bailey update 2020" that we put in some of the Christmas cards summarizes 2020 pretty well: We felt really blessed that despite many problems that the pandemic brought on for so many families, we had constant steady income from Rob's job and that he was able to work from home remotely. (We have rearranged several times to find the best place for him to work, but we have all adjusted to his working from home. Because much of his church work is done remotely also, we jokingly call the truck "The Bishop's Office" because of times when he needed to make a private phone call and couldn't find a quiet place in the house. Hopefully, he can continue worki...

 Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and I noticed my last post was when the 3 public school kids started classes. I was going to work on reviewing some math and chemistry tonight to help Carolyn, but I know some of you really enjoy these updates. I'll "write the book" first and post all the picture at the end. Enjoy as much or as little of this as you like. Although I enjoy everything I do, I am barely keeping up! I have found some things to take off my plate though. (I finally found a chemistry curriculum that does most of Carolyn's teaching - and that I watch to refresh my knowledge, and we sometimes watch a pre-calculus lecture on YouTube rather than me teaching the lesson, especially for subjects I like less. Like logarithms. Half of you probably don't even know what those are. Don't worry; they're a pain.) Gideon has been interested in knowing what words say, so we've started working on learning to read. (Very very basic...like knowing m says...