Today I came to the conclusion that this summer just is not long enough! That’s pretty bad for the longest summer break we’ll have for quite some time. After a great recital weekend dance is over for the year. We still have two weeks of ball. By the time that’s over, June will be almost over. Last week we signed Donovan up to play football this fall. He’s playing on a rocket football team in St. Louis. His practices start in August. That means our summer is basically July. We got the calendar out tonight to plan some vacation time. We have been waiting to schedule our trip to Virginia until the Canada fishing trip got scheduled. We ended up tentatively deciding on a date for Virginia. We’ll be gone for the 4th of July for almost a week if we can get someone to watch the dog that long. We are having trouble getting time for camping figured out. We’ll get a least a couple trips in, they’ll just be last minute type trips. I don’t know how we’ll manage a trip to Higgins Lake.
The kids are thrilled to be on summer break now. They slept until almost 9 today, which is pretty late for my kids. I got them signed up for the summer reading program through the library and they are doing the reading challenge the school gives them every year. We went to the library today and the girls both got 5 books. Donovan doesn’t like anything, I found lots of sports books but he wasn’t interested. We will also be working on some math to keep them on track for next year. The girls have both set some dance related goals this summer too. Paige is continuing to work on her splits. She can’t quite get the one-leg-in-front splits yet so will work on those. Tessa wants to learn to skip because that is a skill she will need next year. Paige also wants to learn to do a cartwheel and a handstand and she’s still working on riding a two-wheeler. Jon and I are losing patience with her on this so hopefully she gets it soon. Donovan has no goals…that’s typical. Oh, unless he has secretly set a goal to talk until we go crazy, he’s well on his way with that.
