Slow Motion

Ah…summer, how I love thee.  Freckles.  The lingering smell of sunscreen. Towels drying on the patio.  Eating outside.  Sun-bleached hair.  (You should see Noah’s!)  The yummy, sleepy feeling that envelopes you at the end of a day spent entirely outside. Mmmmm.

So, it’s just dawned on me that as a homeschooling mom, my perspective on summer vacation will be entirely different from that of a mom whose children go to school.  Right now, I really do feel like I’m on vacation.  It’s been so lovely to have noting to do but be a housekeeper and mummy and not a schoolmarm!   I could really get used to this.  :-)

Dave and I are committed, though, to homeschool through the next school year.  Yes, it takes a lot – A LOT – out of us, but we’re loving the connectedness (is that a word?) that we feel as a family.  It’s worth it.  Hopefully, I’ll be able to blog more about this sometime. Hopefully being the key word.  I can’t make any promises…I have five kids y’all!

I have tons of photo’s waiting to be shared too.  Right now they’re stuck on my camera (almost 1000 of ‘em!).  Our computer died a while ago, and Dave’s laptop is in serious danger of crashing if I upload anymore onto it. But never fear, Dave has ordered us a new MacMini and it should be here soon, so stay tuned.

P.S.  Going to Fort Snelling tomorrow, a local living history museum.  Excited!