dave & janet horsman ::: keepin’ it real since 1998

So…now that my hundreds of photos are finally off of my camera and onto my new Mac, I can’t find them.  I mean, I can find them – I can look at them – but I can’t figure out how to import or export them. Booo!  (I’m booing myself, by the way, and not my new computer.) And actually, I probably could figure it out, but it’s 9:30 pm, and putzing around on a computer when I’m tired is not something that I enjoy doing.

Anyhow, summer continues to be lovely.  The boys just finished up two weeks of swimming lessons.  They rocked it and I got some great pictures of them and everyone by the pool, but those will have to wait till next week.  Tomorrow I’ll be getting us packed up for a very spontaneous trip down to IHOP in Kansas City.  We couldn’t pass up some free lodging that was offered to us and the chance to eat Chick-fil-A.  Yum!

See you next week…probably 5 pounds heavier.

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!

What’s this?  A rare photograph of the blog author herself!  And, yes, I got my hair chopped off.  It’s been way too long since I’ve done this.  I love it!

This is by no means a great photo, but it gives you a little glimpse of what we saw this morning across the way at our park.  A doe with her brand new little baby fawn following on very shakey legs.  It was so cute.  At one point the fawn even laid down for a rest and I had a great opportunity to snap a better photo, but my CF card was full!  Doh!

Lego, lego here and there
Lego, lego everywhere
On the floor and in the sink
And even with the milk I drink

I CANNOT stop reading this book.  It’s so incredible.  You must read it.  Seriously.