I'm starting to wonder if the reason I don't blog very often is because I get stressed about what to "Title" each blog.  Like this one, for instance.  Nothing witty or pertinent is coming to mind; that almost prevented me from blogging tonight.  Now, that's silly.  So I'll keep writing, and maybe something will come to me.

I can't believe it's stinkin' July already!  That is the overwhelming thought for me these days.  I have allowed a little rest and relaxation to be the rule around here, but then I blinked, and WHAMMY!!  I lost June!  [AHA!  The blog title just came to me.  Not very witty, I know; but, hey, I'm out of practice]  I think, though, that we all needed some carefree days.  We have been very busy traveling to tournaments on the weekends for my daughter's softball team.  Then we come home on Sunday night, exhausted, a little sun weary, a little dusty.  I scramble to get all the uniforms and fan apparel washed the following few days, and then we do it all over again on Friday.

I have wanted to get a few things academic in nature done this summer, though; finish up some lapbooks, work through our science curriculum, piano lessons, finish the Latin program.  And, of course, there's the whole summer read aloud list that we put together, all excited, anxious to plow through it like it was a gigantic ice cream sundae.  We're on Chapter 3 of our first read aloud...."The Hobbit."  *SIGH*

So I battle these conflicting issues almost on a daily basis:  the desire to really say we're done, let's relax, enjoy the rest of the summer, not to mention the projects and personal reading I'd like to get done this summer (besides, we're done testing, so that screams "We're done", right?) VS. the little voice that keeps saying,  "Keep the kids' brains sharp!", "Soon you'll be hearing "I'm bored!"", "They watch too much TV!", "We have to finish our lapbooks!"  Again *SIGH*!

Not sure which will win out.  I take it day by day around here.  In the end, it will all be good.....whatever we decide to do.