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So, I just had a whole long post just about ready to go, when Baby Book came over and grabbed my mouse and clicked it somehow sending my "back" and losing my post.  The kid is a computer genius I tell you :)

Anyway I don't have time now to write the whole thing again.  So I'll have to do the abbreviated post now and add more later.

Summer was very relaxed and peaceful around here.  It was actually a great summer.  But we are back to school work now and I should be blogging a lot more.  Now that I actually have something to blog about!

In my lost post and talked about what we did this summer as well as an overview of this school year.  I think I will just do summer now and talk about this school year later.

The girls went to Girl Scout Camp for 5 weeks this summer.  It was a really great experience and I am so grateful that I was able to give this to them.  It was an all girl camp, obviously, and that was important to me but really it was a fantastic experience.  It was a fairly small camp -only about 50 kids I think -but the counselors were just terrific and I think the girls got a lot out of it.  I also made sure that the girls were in separate groups as I thought it would be very good for them to have some time apart (which it definitely was).  It was a typical "day camp" in the woods on a lake with swimming, boating, arts and crafts, archery, etc...  All the things that you would expect.  But because it was all girls it definitely had that girly side :)  For example they had a theme every week as well, and it included red, white and blue manicures during July 4th week :)  They did lots of tie dye, and discovered the wonders of gimp :)

The staff was just fantastic as well.  They did a cookout every week and were always really good at making sure that they had some kosher food for my girls.  I told them I would be happy to send food, but they insisted on finding ways to include them.  There was also the day that SPG was the only one that signed up to go on a nature hike. Rather than cancel it, 3 counselors took her out all around the 400 acre facility both hiking and in a canoe and really explored.  She had a great time and came home that night glowing with excitement and full of stories about the wonderful time she had had.  I really can't say enough about how great the program was.

We started school in mid August - starting Week 4 today.  I start earlier than most people do around here, but we will take off most of October for Jewish Holy Days.  We changed curriculums and most of our outside activities but all in all I am really happy with the changes, as are the kids.  I will of course be writing more about this later.

I will definitely be blogging more now that we are back in school.  I find that it is good to remind me of all that we are doing, and is important for me as a homeschooler -even if no one reads :)  But of course having readers makes me accountable to them as well.  I have a bunch I want to blog about right now, so there should be regular postings for a while.