Yeah!! School Is Out For Summer!

Our first week sans school was AWESOME! I love homeschooling, but it is VERY time consuming. The actual time the girls spend on their work each day is minimal when compared to those in a traditional setting, but lesson planning and paper/test grading are extremely time consuming and I am so happy to get a break for awhile. Since everyone is still SLOWLY getting better from being sick, we stayed close to the house this week. We travel a lot so this felt a little like a punishment, but we did get some things done/started that we had wanted.
For instance, I have been griping about wanting a bigger driveway since we bought the house (side note: only 11 years left on mortgage. yeah!) so what better time for a lot of hard exhausting manual labor than while I have 3 kids who are perfectly content to rest and watch a movie. I have to be honest though, the project is way harder than I anticipated. In fact, 3 hours of D and I both working and we have only completed 50 sq ft of the 400 sq ft we are expanding. I can't wait until we finish. Not only will it be nice to park all our cars in back (at least until we buy the camper), but then we won't have to break our backs leveling and putting in the stones (17.5 lbs each and we need just over 400).
I have decided next week we will start our trips back up. I have always loved to go to new places and explore new things. The kids and D share this with me. Next week alone, we have 4 day trips planned and a 10 day vacation planned coming up before to long, though D says if the kids come it is technically a family trip because a vacation implies we could sleep when we want to. :) I hope everyone else plans to have a summer as fun as ours! Well, I am off to work on the driveway.......or maybe take a nap. :)

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