Why I Dread Summer

Hmmmm.

Thinking.

Still  thinking.

Nope.  Can't think of ANY reason why I dread summer.  What's to dread?!

 I love having 'off' in the summer.   

 As Buddy the Elf would say, "It's my favorite."

I guess it's not really off, just more of a change of pace.  As a matter of fact, during dinner tonight my kids were dicussing some grammar rules.   So, noooooooo, we're not off.  

However, my whole family looks forward to the more leisurely days.  Here are the 
top ten things
  that we are 
looking forward to doing this summer:

1.  Levi (age 3) has swim lessons for two weeks. 

2.   Summer camps.  Luke (age 16) and Josh (age 14) will attend Home School Legal Defense Association's GenJ government camp in Colorado in August.  Luke, Sophia and Caroline will also go to  other summer camps (church,  gymnastics, horse). 

3.  Host a 12 year old girl from Spain and a 16 year old boy from France for three and a half weeks so they can learn English.

 4.  Go to the beach in Texas for a week with our family (and our two exchange students).

5.  Steve and I will continue attending Toastmasters meetings and I'll be preparing to teach my year long speech class to 7th-12th grade students next year.

6.  Caroline (age 12) will have her friend, who lives two hours away, come stay for awhile.

7.  Compete in a (few) mini-triathlon(s).  Luke will do his first one.  It's scheduled for next Sunday but it may be cancelled...ugh..  we'll find more.

 8.  Maybe, just maybe, take Luke to get his driver's license.

 9.  Proceed with the adoption process.

10.  Celebrate my birthday in August (or maybe I'll just celebrate the anniversary of my 29th birthday!).

 

And here is something that will take most of my time, but not something that I'm necessarily looking forward to:   

•  Preparing for next year's school year.  That alone, could fill the entire summer.  

I wonder why it takes so long to do that?  Can't I just have each child follow the schedule of the oldest as they get to be his age?

Sigh.

No.

As I think about that, that could actually be worse!  Having each child take the same courses that the child before him/her took.  That wouldn't work.

They need individualized schedules/curricula,  and we need to change schedules/curricula based on what's going on with our family that year.

Now I feel better about spending that time preparing for the next year!

Pro 21:5  The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty. 

Galatians  6:9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

How do you prepare for next year's school?  

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