Monday, June 29, 2009  It's been a while... but oh the things
that have been happening!  June is almost over which means two
things:  1. One third of our summer is already past us  2. It's
almost my birthday  Since the kids get out of school so early
(May 22 this year!) our summer starts fast and keeps gaining
speed. I feel it whizzing by and my head wants to spin because
we haven't even done the things I wanted to do.  I start every
summer with ideas of keeping the kids entertained. How I wish we
lived in the days where you just rode your bike around the
neighborhood and played games with the neighbor kids. My girls
don't have video games that keep them in the house; there just
aren't many kids in the neighborhood to play with. So I had
planned on having swimming days, library days, craft days, and
such. I was going to incorporate the rest of our study of Esther
(which we started last summer and never finished). So far we
have gone swimming once, been to the library once and haven't
even cracked our Bibles (