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The application for the refinancing is in, and we should be hearing from the appraiser soon. This should help get us some more equity in the house quicker, as well as prevent payments from skyrocketing - our current mortgage jumps from 8.125% to 11.5% at the end of this month, and payments skyrocket from just less than 2 weeks worth of pay to closer to 3 weeks worth... my lesson from all this is not to sign things when the loan folks suddenly change them last minute at closing.

Deb's at the homeschool conference today, picking out curriculum for next year, so I'm teaching today!

Had Justin using some free time to explore particle physics - I often joke about having the kids work on things way over their heads, and that started off as one, along with "Advanced Calculus." Justin said he had heard of calculus but not particle physics. I reminded him that the part of His Dark Materials that I'm currently reading (and we had discussed earlier in the day) was based on a fictional twist on particle physics. Hence, Justin did a quick Google (or more) and came up with a fun, accessible site - Particle Adventure - and spent the time while I was working with Rachel on her math perusing the site.

Anywho, time for my favorite subject... lunch! =)