Thank you for coming to chat with me today!

Can I get you some tea? I have a selection of herbal teas, milk, juice and I actually have ginger ale and sparkling water – two beverages I rarely have.

I’m sitting and doing my best to relax this weekend – the last weekend of summer for us.

It is the last day of August. How is that even possible? In some ways it seems like summer just began, though with all the heat we had summer also feels like it was very, very long.

This Tuesday we start homeschool officially.

This past Tuesday Little Miss and I had a wonderful day swimming at my parents. The pool was in perfect shape and the temperature was absolutely perfect.

We ate some lunch before we went and took lunch to my parents as well. Then we spent two hours in the pool, took a break for a light supper, then back in the pool for another 90-minutes. The temperature was fairly high outside so the pool was perfectly nice inside.

Little Miss enjoyed swimming underwater, doing flips, and practicing floating on her back – all skills she learned this summer.

The Boy helped my dad with mowing the lawn since Dad has been suffering from a pinched nerve in his lower back that has made doing work outside very difficult.

On Wednesday Little Miss and I went back to the pool and Dad and The Boy went to a county fair near us.

We figured it might be our last swim since temps were set to drop the rest of the week.

It looks like it might be close to 80 tomorrow but the pool water probably will not be as nice as Tuesday and Wednesday.

We have had a lot of fun in that pool this summer.

Today Little Miss is having another sleepover which is hilarious to me since I said the one a few weeks ago was her last for the summer. Sigh.

Anyhow, we just had a downpour here and I told the girls to go out and run in the rain.

They ran for coats and shoes and umbrellas. Good grief. When I was a kid, we just ran in the rain! We didn’t worry about covering up. I feel like I have failed my daughter. *snort laugh*

On Tuesday I will start classes with the kids, even though I don’t have everything I need yet for the oldest. He, however, only has a couple of classes to take to finish out the credits he needs to graduate since he is also attending a technical school this year.

Little Miss will be my main focus this year and we are trying new curriculum in almost every subject. We will see how it goes but what is great about homeschool is that I can switch to a different curriculum at any point if needed. I am looking forward to some more routine, which will hopefully make me sit down and finish my book that I hope to have out in the beginning of November.

How was your week last week? Did you do anything interesting or exciting?

(P.S. Aren’t you glad that I’m not talking about “hot statutes of Lucifer” today?)