Summer Madness

Today is our last day of summer vacation. We start homeschooling tomorrow. Tonight we have a couple coming over to eat with us that we met a few weeks ago in Sunday school. They are going to start homeschooling their Kindergarten age daughter this fall. Right now Danya is at her best friend Emma's house. Emma lives right next door to a neighborhood pool! So the girls are going swimming, Danya in her new tweety bird swimsuit. Here is a recent pic of Danya in our front yard.

She wants to get her hair cut short like her sister's, but we just can't let her. Her long blonde hair is just too cute! We are cleaning house and getting last minute things ready for company tonight and starting homeschooling tomorrow. I woke up this morning feeling like a walking zombie. I'm wondering how well we'll do at trying to get ready and take an early morning walk tomorrow. Our new friends who are coming to dinner mentioned that they are going blackberry picking tomorrow morning. I've always wanted to try that, so maybe we'll go after our walk.

Now to figure out how I can claim blackberry picking as a homeschool field trip on our first day! Daniel says that if we cook with them it's "Home Ec." and science because we'll be learning "Botany". Sounds good to me!