Our Family Project

Tonight I am grateful for Microsoft Excel.  There are so many things that I use Excel for, but tonight I am especially grateful for the new tracking sheets that I created in Excel for our cub scout den leaders to use. Months ago, they were given similar tracking sheets, but they were so hard to use.  I went home with the file for those sheets waiting for me in my email inbox, and I took them and reformatted them.  When I was finally finished and took the new and improved tracking sheets to cub scouts tonight, both of the wolf den leaders and the assistant den leader expressed their gratitude for such an easier form for tracking not only their achievements, but also their attendance, award, and Faith in God progress. I use Excel for all of my homeschooling sheet, all of my file folder sheets, and many, many other things.  So, I am so grateful for Excel and my rudimentary knowledge of how to use the program to make forms for me to use everyday.

Andrew got to participate in the Raingutter Regatta last week for pack meeting.  After the fiasco that was the Pinewood Derby, I was determined to learn all I could about performing well at the raingutter regatta. My first mistake? We didn't seal the trimaran until, oh, six hours before the races began. .... Did you know that polyurethane is supposed to cure for 24 hours before normal use??? I didn't. Weeks ago, Andrew brought home his trimaran kit and put his trimaran together without painting it or anything.  And, over the weekend we were so busy with extended family that I didn't even think about getting his trimaran ready. On Tuesday morning, I started to look online for tips and tricks to preparing the trimaran well.  Everything said to put the polyurethane on the pontoons at least 24 hours before the Regatta. Oops. We only had a few hours before our regatta. Oh well.  I took Andrew into the garage and we started painting the polyurethan...