I want a tree like this in my back­yard. They are absolutely won­der­ful for shade, climb­ing or tree rid­ing (sit­ting on those branches and bounc­ing on them). Its a lit­tle cor­ner of our favorite park lately. Just beautiful.

So, I am alive, if you have been won­der­ing. Not very bloggy chatty, but fine oth­er­wise. The weather — isnt that the topic one chooses when they dont know what to talk about? — has been quite hot, so the water foun­tains at the park are quite wel­comed and a per­fect place to play.

I am busy preparing.

Busy think­ing up and orga­niz­ing activ­i­ties for the first term of „school”. Not ours, but all activ­i­ties run accord­ing to the offi­cial school terms, so we have to fol­low them as well. I get heaps of emails and infor­ma­tion from home­school­ing hap­pen­ings. Then I keep an eye out for other hap­pen­ings. Then I think of more hap­pen­ings on my own and then go on to look infor­ma­tion for them. Its impossible.

So far we have heaps of sports this term. Miss Fab didnt want to do gym any­more, so we will do some easy going gym­nas­tics, a group of kids will do a few hours of dif­fer­ent sports every week. Acting. Writing with the author. Tennis.  Little B is the dancer, so she will do bal­let and swim­ming. So exciting!

Where is the learn­ing? Right there

Ok, I have also ordered the next chap­ter of Story of the World. Lovely CD col­lec­tion of the his­tory of the world from the very begin­ning to mod­ern times. We lis­ten to it when dri­ving to and fro. I am learn­ing so much from it, quite handy. Then this term we will try Math-u-See to keep up the math awak­en­ing that is hap­pen­ing with the big girl. From math hater, she is turn­ing into a math dont min­der. There is hope, I tell you. Maybe its not a lost cause. So we will try that pro­gram and her sis­ter is inter­ested too.

Now that lit­tle one is so open to learn­ing. I am curi­ous to see if this will stay so with no school to dampen that. Only time will tell.

I am busy preparing.

I am also work­ing on the gifts and prepa­ra­tions for Miss B’s birth­day. Handmade gifts, wrap­ping, bows… Cake. Cake trans­porta­tion. That last one is needed as we are off on a trip for a few days and since I have an order for cake, it needs to be trans­ported there safely.

And in the midst of all this, I have to endure long after­noons in the park, with glo­ri­ous trees and water fountains…

Phew!

Trip means lots of pho­tos! Excited?

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