Summer Life

We're in full swing.  Got one week of Summer School under our belt.  Sal LOVES it!  *I* love the notes home because it's a worksheet with pictures and she circles what she's done and then circles if she likes it or not.  ;-)  (can you guess what Sal circles every time?)  :-) 

Met with my nephew (and family) and brother and sister-in-law last night.  One of them commented that Sal never seems to be in a bad mood.  That's true - very rarely.  Sometimes just a couple of minutes when she first gets up but then we slide into "life is good" mode.  ;-)

Jack's had 2 weeks of basketball camp and really likes it.  He goes to Camp-A-Lotta fun for 2 weeks and then back to basketball camp.   He comes home in such a good mood.  Gives me and him a little time to read before Sal comes home and then it's time for lunch. 

We've been doing the library every week and this week we're starting Jack cooking lunch on Friday.  We'll see how that goes.  :-)  Our first meal (planned by him) is Fish Sticks, Mac-n-cheese, and fruit.  Sal gets to do dishes afterwards.  :-)  Woo hoo.  :-)

Just finished reading "The Help".  Yeah - I know, I'm behind the rest of the world.  :-)  but........ OH.......MY....... GOD!   I BAWLED - I mean like shaking shoulders and ugly bawled!  I'm really down today because there's no more to read.  I want to check in on Minny and Abilene and see how they're doing.  I want to follow their lives more.  I get misty just thinking about it.  I'm going to make a mental note and read it with Jack in maybe a year.  It's a little long for us right now.  He gets in a kick and doesn't want to read everyday and I sometimes let it slide so it would take us YEARS to get through it right now.

I have to say, I'm really having a nice time with my kids this summer.  (hopefully that statement will not come back to bite me in the arse)  :-)