Things are really moving fast.  There doesn't seem to be a day where the calendar has a free space. 

We have less than two weeks of school.  I am so tempted to just finish it up right now.  But no, we will perservere to the end.  I am not required to count days of school until Cameron enters the third grade but I am "practicing" now.  PA requires 180 days.  We already have 177 days on the calendar! We are coming down the home stretch.

I've already started getting organized for next year.  I will soon have the school shelves reorganized and ready to go. 

This was our first year using Ambleside Online.  I didn't do everything that is suggested for a CM'er (Charlotte Mason) to do but we added a few things and we will add a few more things next year.  I'm very pleased with the way things have gone this year using AO.  I wasn't sure about it at first, mostly because Cameron is slow at learning to read.  But, as many people tell me, boys usually take a little longer and for some, it doesn't click until around 8 years old.  CM is a lot of reading.  But he loves the stories, most of them, and his narration skills have improved vastly over the year.  We went from not doing narration at all to being able to recall details from a retold Shakespeare story several days later.

I am learning too.  I've started my own nature journal which I am LOVING.  I've always wished I could draw and I am pleasantly surprised with my results.  It really makes you pay attention to small dettails.  I'm noticing things in God's wonderful creation that I never really paid attention to before.

This week was also my library's annual book sale.  They seemed to have twice as many books this year as they did last.  I got a few great finds.  I found some classics that we will need for school that were in great shape.  I found a two volume set about composers and their music.  That will be very helpful in the coming years as we study composers.  I got a few books on nature, one of them being a wildflower identification guide.  It is for a specific area, but as I leafed through, most of those wildflowers are in this area as well.  I did pick up a few duds, but they were 10 cents, so I do not feel any great loss and will just give them back for another sale.

Cameron is improving in soccer as is his coach.  Last night we had a practice that was much better than the week before.  Cameron is still not understanding all the in's and out's of the game and doesn't pay attention as much as he should but I'm sure that will improve as we go along.

Well, my early morning quiet has come to an end.  The day must start.  There is much to be done.