So many have asked, why homeschool in the summer? And, quite honestly, I wondered on Monday if starting on Tuesday was really giving us all the break that we needed. Well, turns out that starting on Tuesday was the best decision for our family. We are only homeschooling three days per week during the summer. This morning as we were doing our work I had one child begging me to please give him a test tomorrow and the other one asking if he could still read me a story tomorrow AND they BOTH were pleading with me to continue reading our assigned Read Aloud story.....I had to remind them that tomorrow was not a "school day". They were visibly sad and happy at the same time. In other news, we are finishing off P's baseball season tonight barring no rain. C also has his last season game tonight and then his team will head into playoffs next week. The boys swam their first swimteam meet on Tuesday. Our neighborhood team won! They both did marvelous and they were beyond exhausted! We all were. MK continues to swim like a fish. Three weeks into the swim season and she is jumping into the pool alone (float on, of course), she swims with her face in the water and her little legs kicking as fast as they will go....then, when, if, she tires, she flips onto her back where she proceeds to grab her feet and float until the rest is no longer needed.

"1,2,3....GO!" This was taken at the beach. Now that we are home, she has graduated to jumping from the side of the pool. No fear.

"Pink baby" swims with us everywhere.