This is just a placeholder post while I finish my coffee before running upstairs to haul children out of bed.
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It's sort of our first week of summer. I say "sort of" because we actually have one school-week left, which we're doing next week.
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It's the time of year where as you drive around town you see big lawn signs out front of all the Protestant churches announcing "Kids Adventure Camp!" or "Jump Into Summer Fun Week!" When I was little, I am pretty sure they called it Vacation Bible School. I think they still call it that ("vee bee ess") out loud, but it does not appear on the lawn signs anymore.
My kids are going to a VBS camp entitled "Immaculate Mary: The Story of Saint Bernadette and Our Lady Of Lourdes!"
(I love our parish DRE.)
We don't have a lawn sign. Maybe we should. Except then the camp might fill up even faster than it already does.
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I'm volunteering in the nursery this year. Margaret took a good picture of me with my coffee and the other nursery volunteers. I don't photograph particularly well so I'll link to this one because I like it. She's a good photographer, or at least she has a damn good camera.
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We are having a very dental week. The seven-year-old needs a filling, the four-year-old has an abscess and needs an extraction, the sixteen-month-old is screaming teething on two sides all night long, and the ten-year-old — about whom the dentist announced to us, "This kid is never going to have a cavity, count your blessings" — has an orthodontia consultation this afternoon. Here's hoping the outlook is sunny there.
(UPDATE: Braces are not in our imminent future but will remain an option farther down the road, and probably a minor option at that. So. Good. But. This poor teething baby is SO NOT HAPPY. I think we'll be exercising the "quesadillas for dinner" option.)
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OK, coffee cup's empty. I've got some good homeschooling posts in the queue, I think — my internet-safety lesson for middle schoolers, and I'm almost done collating the information for my three-year literature-based American history curriculum, which I'm gonna put up free of charge.
But somewhere in there I plan to head out to the playground.
Have a great day!
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