Summer Time!

It is amazing to me how time goes by so fast!  It has been over a month since I posted.  We have been so busy!  We had a wonderful trip to OK for a business/pleasure type trip.  Our fellowship with dear friends out there was TOO SHORT!!!!  We came back to a full weekend of concerts.  Though it may be a little late, I am spring cleaning like crazy!  Hoping and praying to get my school room and other areas ready for a new school year.  Used sales, curriculum fairs, reading all the Charlotte Mason materials I can get my hands on, weeding the garden, mulching the flower beds, etc., etc., etc..  

Several weeks ago we had our first garden skillet - new potatoes and onions.  Today I picked my first red tomato out of the garden.  In another few days I will be canning green beans.  We have already had our first blackberry cobbler - actually they were dewberries (kin) - and thanks to a friend who had an over abundance of fresh milk, we also had homemade ice cream.   Summer is always such a fun and FULL time!!!

This summer I opted to continue school to a certain degree.  We are sharing a morning time session together after I spent time reading a couple of blogs that I found inspiring.  One was shadybrookacres.blogspot.com and the other was morningtimemoms.blogspot.com.   My current reading basket with the kids includes Choosing Obedience by Kaye Freeman, Do Hard Things - A Teenage Rebellion against Low Expectations by Alex & Brett Harris, Minn of the Mississippi by Holling Clancy Holling, Story of the World, Volume 3 by Susan Wise Bauer, North with the Spring by Edwin Way Teale, and last but not least, a collection of poems by Tennyson.  We have had a great time reading through these books.  In the evenings we are trying to read as well.  We just finished a book by Gary Paulsen - one of his Brian books - and have now started Walk the World's Rim by Betty Baker.  I find this time with the kids very enjoyable . . . it is interesting that we each have our favorite book, you know, the one where they are begging for another chapter =)

This weekend we have family coming in for a visit . . . we are all looking forward to it.  Until next time . . .