Summer

I feel a little like the kids in High School musical.

Summer, Summer, Summer!

KatieJo has 1 day left and Stuart has 4 days left of school.  But who's counting?

I am of course.  Phillip and Maija are on a reduced load of school work already.  Phillip has put in a lot of time this year with eye therapy and school work that he's almost caught up with math and language arts.  It isn't that he doesn't have the capabilities.  He's just had so many problems with his eyes that learning new material has come really hard for him.  We also don't want either Maija or Phillip to loose much over the summer so we're schooling Mondays to Thursday with a math lesson on Friday.

Stuart is working at Columbia Basin Racquet Club teaching swim lessons and coaching the pre-swim team.  Which makes it easier for the rest of us to stay on a schedule.  Most summers I feel like everyday is Saturday so we don't accomplish anything.  And, this is the first summer since Phillip was born that we aren't headed down to Colorado for the summer. 

We get to have Samuel home next week!

  We're all excited and a little apprehensive.  He's been accepted into Intermountain and provided we can get funding for room and board in place he'll go in on June 22nd.  It's a little bitter sweet.  We all know it'll be really good for him, but we're all scared and worried about it as well.  He feels the same.   

We're aiming for a nice quiet summer.  Besides teaching piano lessons and school work our plan is to spend a lot of time at the pool.  A perk of Stuart working at CBRC is that we get a very discounted membership and they have several nice pools for us to swim at.  A lot of kids that ours attend workshops with swim there all summer so automatic playdates are nice!