Summer is over?

Gracious, I cannot believe how quickly summer has flown by this year! We had a big, big summer!!

Both of the big girls went to Girl Scout Camp this year and both loved it (despite the tragedy of losing BehBear). A week after Elizabeth came home from camp, we were off to Grammie's for a week. We always enjoy our time there - and this year, Brad and I took at day-trip to Atlanta. Archiver's, Trader Joe's, Ikea and, of course, The Varsity (the original!)

We left Elizabeth at Camp Grammie for two weeks. Katherine spent another week going to Day Camp at Ozark Conference Center (Annie and Harrison aren't old enough for that). The truck got a tankful of bad gas (delivery company's fault, they covered it), the motor on the dishwasher went out, DirecTV went out for four days in the smack-dab middle of the Olympics (say WHAT?!)  and my laptop got a brand-new-never-before-seen variant of the TDL4 Rootkit.  And then, we are suddenly in the first week of August -- when we started school!  We've been back at it for three full weeks now.

The girls are doing handwriting, math, spelling, reading, grammar, science and history.  Science and history are done all together. The big girls do spelling and grammar together.  Harrison is doing Saxon Kindergarten math this year and he loves it.  I wasn't supposed to start the lessons until September but he couldn't stand not doing it!  He is also doing handwriting.  Annie is doing fabulously - reading has finally clicked with her. She also continues speech therapy one day/week at the local elementary school. We actually had her evaluation this week and "real" therapy will start next week. Our focus this year is on her rate of speech/conversational speech -- and after this year, she's out. She will be finished.

Harrison's preschool meet-and-greet was today. I had to fight back tears. Our last year, ever, at the preschool. It makes me sad when I think this will be the last year our family interacts with this staff and teachers!  Preschool starts Monday and he. is. ready!!! He is very excited about the year. I can't wait to share a "First Day of School" photo! So, hopefully I will see you Monday!!