Missing in action ... that's what I'm like with my blog these days.  Robin asked me in a comment several days ago (more than a week ago?) how things were going, and still ... I can't seem to get in sync.

so ...

Robin!  Thanks for asking, and sorry so long in responding!  It's been crazy busy, and this season is always that way.  My blog post over on Home Where They Belong should be up in a day or two, and that explains how tired I've been and why.  The short version is that summer, ending school and getting read for camping - camping - coming home from camping is SIMPLY EXHAUSTING!

And you know ... I know you know ... life just does not stop.  You get home and there are a dozen things to take care of right off the bat.

In all though, God is good.  I do have the energy to do so much, though I AM exhausted, I am thankful that I can do what I do.  Do we take decent health for granted?  My daughter is doing well - everything is good with her.  Her husband did a sonogram of their baby ... since he is now an ultrasound tech, he could do that.  Everything looks good!  He just got a job, and it will be a 90 min. commute, but it is a very good job with great benefits.  Including shorter days to make up for the driving time.  I am proud of them.

I babysat the grandchildren today, and my oldest grandchild is in her glory (she's almost 8) because the berries are ripe.  She has grown to look forward to that every year.  I feel so grandmaish, that these traditions are taking hold.  I now have ripe raspberries, gooseberries, black caps and currents.  It is such fun!  No, I don't have it together enough to can or freeze right now - and the crops are too small to do any of that anyhow.  So the kids just strip the berry bushes of any fruit, eating it right off the bush in the sunshine (or rain!).  A childhood memory that I savor as well.

I will survive this summer, and start up school again in the fall.  I am in the last stretch, homeschooling only two now.  My last two.  I'll be making my final decisions on how I'll do this year, in the next week or two.  And of course, I'll probably change everything around after the first two weeks anyhow ...

I do hope to keep up with this blog a bit more now that the "crazy, busy" time is past.  Now I'm just in the "nearly crazy busy" time.

Till next time ...