This week, Cameron is at a Weapons Camp.  I'm not sure what all that entails except weapons (I am assuming their history and uses and how to make them), several boys and fun.  While he is away in the mornings I'm still doing some cleaning.  Cleaning is a good way for me to declutter things around the house.  That is something I need to do every single day!  For most of our early married years, finances were extremely tight.  Now that they aren't "AS" tight, I'm noticing my family's (including me) tendency towards not wanting to get rid of things.  This is something we will be working on!

I am also still contemplating the up coming homeschool year.  The co-op Cameron has been in for a couple of years is going to make some pretty big changes so Xavier and I have really been trying to discern which way to go with that.  I am finding that until the co-op question is answered, I cannot really finalize my own school year or even do lesson plans and for our family, the "official" school year begins in 4 weeks!

We are praying for rain here.  It is extremely dry.  We haven't had a measurable rainfall in what seems like forever.  We are under burn bans and extreme heat advisories.  This was the quietest 4th of July we've EVER experienced-in San Antonio we didn't hear even one single firecracker the entire weekend!  On the way home last night we passed a big forest fire on one side of the freeway and then a smaller fire on the other side of the freeway.  We are praying for the drought to end soon!