It Just Hit Me...

that youngest son is really done high school. He received notice this week that he passed his diploma exams woohoo! This means there will be a fancy piece of paper coming soon for him to put on the wall. It also means we're done homeschooling.
Once the last textbooks have been sent back, I'll have 7 years of stuff to go through and decide what to do with. Everywhere I look in our house there is something we got for homeschooling. Each piece has memories, both good and bad, associated with it. Each a step on a path that took a lot of planning, effort, commitment and emotions.
I'm going to miss it. We won't have that common focus to our days. He will be staying home this fall and working, but our days will no longer be linked.
Change comes whether we`re ready or not. I wonder where it will take me.

I Need a Clone

Looking at the calendar, it dawned on me that we have been back from vacation for exactly 1 month.

It actually feels more like 4 months and at least a dozen grey hairs.

Busyness came from work:  the annual book sale, the Canada Day parade float that I didn't have to create (many thanks to Janeen and Cassidy) just find children for & ride in, interviewing/training summer staff, planning the summer reading programs for children, and gettting up to speed with TeenRC. Busyness also came from trying to get everything in place for Al to graduate with the local high school kids in June 2011 after 5 years of homeschooling! Topped with the usually busyness of life and I was going in 6 different directions at the same time.

But the end is in sight. The summer reading program has started and I have 2 fantastic helpers. The Garden Tour is the only event left and I don't do too much for that. Al is organized for school, although he'll do some work this summer to wrap up 2 homeschooling courses and get a jump on next year's stuff.  Now we can settle into the summer routine and hopefully relax.

Okay that might have to wait until after I get the dandelions under control. :-)

The Summer Rush

Meetings, meetings, everywhere a meeting... or something that draws me away from my regular routine. Whether it's homeschooling or Community Outreach what started as one meeting has spun off into several.

Then there is the stuff at work. With summer right around the corner I don't have a lot of time to get local teens involved in TeenRC, get the elementary school age kids registered for Destination Jungle (hoping the reading logs arrive this week), get the annual book sale organized, (is that really next week?), work on the library float for the Canada Day parade, change over the preschool activity kits, change 2, possibly 3 displays, and sit in on the inteviews for the new summer staff person. And that's just for these 2 weeks.

Eventual this will settle down and I'll remind myself how this all meshes together, usually. Thoughts provoked in one area, effect or influence actions in another area. It can be mind boggling as well as inspiring.

Oh yeah and I have to get a Father's Day card...