Well the kids are so excited to be finished school for the year. YAY for them. Now I just have to get busy keeping them busy so they don't get bored.
Courtney has Twisters gym club day camp for a week from the 16th to the 20th of July so that should be a blast for her. Swimming, hiking, and gymnastics. What more could my 8 year old girl ask for. I'm also going to sign her up for a club called girl power for a week in August where they do spa days together and all kinds of girly things together. That will be with her best friend so she will be in heaven doing that.
Jordan on the other hand will be a bit harder. He will have time at his bio dad's house which will be fun for him but he will be at home in the house during the day there with his dad's roommate who is a television addict so the time at home needs to be stimulating to make up for that. I don't think I wrote about this here yet but Jordan was entered back into public school the last term of the year after homeschooling for the first two terms. I also homeschooled him last year. He really needed the intense attention to try and help him get up to speed and stay on track. It was great for the first year and the first term of this year but the second term he must have started puberty because he rebelled against it all. I couldn't get him to stay on track with anything and then got a diagnosis of Lupus. I'm still waiting for a definate diagnosis but in short I didn't have the energy to force a 12 year old to do what he absolutely did not want to do. It was hellish. So I put him right back into school because it was not working for us any longer. He did fairly well. Lots of C- grades but they came at his grade level which is a miracle in itself. He is still reading at about a grade 4 level and is in grade 6 promoted to grade 7. I don't think they are doing him any favors by promoting him but I have stomped my feet and shed tears and nothing I say or do will change the fact that they will NOT hold him back. OK that was a bit of a rant. Sorry. Where was I.... Oh ya so I think I would really like to find a tutoring program for a couple of weeks out of the summer for Jordan. He'll be right excited about that. NOT but what else can I do. This week or maybe today we'll go to the bookstore and pick out some chapter books for him to read over the summer and at the end of each one I'll think of a reward I guess. I'll need to come up with some ideas. Maybe a new privlege. He really really wants to be able to walk down to the gas station/store. It's a 5 minute walk and 1 minute drive. Most of the time it takes is waiting to CROSS THE ROAD!!! That is where I'm freakishly paranoid. I should relax because he's 12 now and babysits his sisters and takes the bus to and from school very successfully. That would be a major reward for him if he read maybe a zillion chapter books. BREATH!!! OK one. Big one. Gosh if he know I was thinking this he'd be giddy with excitement. THEN though his sisters would want to go with him and that's not going to happen for me. RULES RULES RULES So anyway I will need to come up with lots of fun for Jordan over the summer. Waterslides with friends, maybe a nature camp, art camp, I'll have to look some up.
Reagan on the other hand. Hats off to my sweet 3 and a half year old who shed the pull ups at night now. YAY Reagan!! Way to go Ray Ray!! 3 nights dry now. We get her up whenever she stirrs in the night or wakes up and take her to the toilet and she goes. If we ask her if we can carry her to the bathroom to pee so she doesn't pee the bed she says yes and does it. I am so happy to not have to worry about running out of pull ups anymore.
Reagan will get lots of trips to the water park and swim in the pool here. There is so much to do around our home that she really stays busy all day long. Every day is an adventure for her. We can go for long walks up in the park area that we developed behind the house and pick wild flowers for the house. Count the bunnies and watch the crazy dogs of ours run with the deer. It's quite funny to watch. The deer around here are so used to us that they come right down to the house. The kids are really into building forts in the forest right now and determining what type of plants are safe for touching or not. Lots of poison ivy to stay away from. They learned the hard way. It's a beautiful day here. I want to take some pictures of the kids playing outside today and I need to cut the grass. It's a never ending job.
Taken sometime after all the leaves fell. This sweetheart is standing on the bank right beside the garage taking a peek at what we are doing in the driveway. We were cleaning up the leaves from the fall. There was acually another on right beside it but I just took a pic of this one.
Laurie
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