It is June and I should be excited because it is officially summer, but I am not a summer fan so I am not as excited about the arrival of June like others might be.

I will really not be excited when July arrives because July and August are two of our hottest months in our area of the world.

Despite not liking the hot weather of summer, I do have some summer activities I am looking forward to.

Before we get to June, though, I’ll look back on May, which was a somewhat stressful month with a lot of ups and downs.

School ended  Thursday for the kids, but I will write about that in a separate post. I will mention here that I was more than excited for this school year to end, especially when it came to the eleventh grader, my son. Getting him to do schoolwork this year was like pulling teeth. He was never rude about it, but he just dragged his feet on every assignment I gave him. He was also attending classes at a local technical school so I know that added some stress to his schedule. He had senioritis early, I guess.

We had some nice visits at my parents during May and enjoyed watching green spread across the hillsides and fields as Spring came. It seemed like one day the trees were naked and brown and the next they were glowing a brilliant green.

The sight of the green made my heart full and light at the same time.

We haven’t been visiting the library as much lately but we did have a nice visit in May. The books we got that day have been renewed once since but we are ready to take them back.

I read The Strawberry Girl from that stack and Little Miss and I decided we didn’t want to read Ginger Pye right now so we will read that at another time.

There was also a book about reptiles that Little Miss enjoyed and a couple of books about horses as well. We still need to read the picture book on Van Gogh, which is full of beautiful pictures.  

In April we went to a book sale at another library near us and I came home with a large stack of cozy mysteries and other genres.

I’ve read a couple of those cozies and plan to read more this summer.

I feel like May was not very exciting. It was mostly full of school and trying to push through to the end of that.

Looking ahead to this month, we will be meeting with our homeschool evaluator next week. Once that is over and we hand the evaluations into the school district, our school year is officially over. Yay! I’m looking forward to that, but in a way I will miss school. I like learning with the kids. Luckily learning new things is something we can do anytime of the year.

This week I ended up in the ER for some weird symptoms. In the end, things turned out well, but our family has been under a lot of stress so I am really hoping for some sort of break through and turn around this month.

That’s what I’m looking forward to most in June, besides some time with family, reading, and working on the third book in the Gladwynn Grant Mysteries – a turn around for the good in some way.

The day after I came back from the ER the wild roses and the peonies were blooming in our backyard and it gave me hope that that turn around will come soon.