Beth's 3rd Tooth

7 years old and she just lost her third tooth...you can see the new one behind it, oops!

Jason's thought of the day

Jason's thoughts as he sat in my rocking chair tonight before going to bed:

Jason: I'm begging for the future
Me: What about the future are you looking forward to?
Jason:  Mainly, easier forms of transportation and more exploration of the moon.  And did you know that Mars is the fourth brightest thing in the sky after Saturn, Jupiter and the moon of course...

Oh, the conversations we have...He's an amazing blessing :)

Our summer

Hello world!  Someone has been asking when am I going to update my blog?  Well...there's this problem...the longer you go not updating, the harder it is to do because there's more and more to say!  Does that make sense?  So I continue procrastinating even though I like having my online journal to help me remember the little things...it's my scrapbook because we know that actual scrapbooking is not happening for real here at home.  So...why did I stop blogging in the first place - it was summer in southern California!  I forgot what that can be like.  As much as I enjoyed the seasons in Georgia and love all the people that we spent time with in June during our east coast vacation...nothing beats a southern California summer!  We went to the beach,

the lagoon,

 and the OC County Fair, woo hoo! 

And then we went back to the lagoon,

again and again...

and back to the beach

again and again...

and again!

And when we were home

resting and recovering from all our time in the sun - that was my time to plan for school!  I spent a good part of July and August reading through books, curriculum planning and book shopping (I'm keeping Amazon in business :)  I love homeschooling every year I find myself doing more of my own planning and modifying...it takes work planning (fortunately it's the kind of work I love :) 
So there you have it...our summer in a nutshell.  I'll probably never finish blogging about our summer or our trip to NC (hopefully that month got enough posts already).  I'm going to just pick up and start from today...and try to not think of myself as behind so that I'll be able to move forward!