Slow At Blogging

Sorry for being so bad at keeping you up to date....two real reasons:

1. We had a bad school week. We did a lot of things but not really on track. Sometimes that just happens. M. was able to go on a field trip and saw a real Revolutionary War canon. C. was able to go on a retreat with her Sunday school class. She had a blast.

2. The Geeks at Best Buy still have my computer! It has been 10 days!! It is hard to blog without it because of access issues.

We will be back this week with regular posts as we are back on track with school (and hopefully I will get my computer back soon!).

Today we learned about Margaret Corbin. Probably a name that does not often come up in the teachings of American Revolution. She fought alongside her husband in the American Revolutionary War and was the first woman to receive pension from the United States government as a disabled soldier. She was fighting alongside her husband against the Hessian army (Germans who helped the British during the American Revolution)at Fort Washington, New York. Her husband was killed so she took over shooting the canon until she was injured by being shot in the arm. She lost use of her left arm for the remainder of her life. She was the first American women to take a soldier's part in the War for Liberty.