Yesterday was our first official day the kids being off of school for the summer! Reed will still be on year round schedule so the summer will go fast for him. Poor kid, with Dean now going to a different school Reed will have to head back to school early watching his brother and sister still enjoying the summer. Stinks! We don't have too much planned for the summer which is actually kind of nice. Just plan to enjoy those simple and easy days that summer brings listening to alot of Kenny Chesney;). All 3 will be doing swim lessons for a good part of it. I am hoping Faith will get comfortable this year putting her face under water. She loves the water, just not putting her face in it. Dale and the boys are going for 1 week in July to Ocean City Maryland to spend a week out on his sister's boat. Reed will finally get to go fishing, something he has always wanted to do. Yeah for Reed! I know it will be a great experience for them. For the first time the boys are flying unaccompanied and Dale will meet up with them. Their quite the travelers so they'll do just fine. (It's Mom that will just be a nervous wreck!) In August we are hoping to take a drive up the Northern CA coast to see some of the giant trees and more of the beauty of CA.
My sister and her 14 year old (foster) daughter come tomorrow to spend a week with us. We're looking forward to their visit.
There are a few personal goals of mine that I am going to try and attempt this summer:(of course the key word is attempt!)
*put all my photos from the last 2 years in actual photo albums!
*sit and curl up to read and FINISH a good book.
*renew mine and the kids passports (they expired and I can not stand not having updated passports)
*get change of address cards mailed to everyone being that it has been 3 months since we moved. I can not stand doing this with the amount of times that we have moved! I'm sure everyone gets sick of changing our address as well!
* And my biggie is to finally get my training completed to start our dog Ruby in reading therapy. I have always had a strong interest in therapy and have always had a love for dogs. So when I found out about this program (http://www.pawsforhealing.org/) that does dog therapy I knew it would be perfect for Ruby and I. I took Ruby a few months ago and we completed the initial training in which she passed into the program. Then we had to decide what type of therapy we wanted to do. With Ruby's calm and gentle nature we thought the reading program would be perfect for her. It is held at the library and children that have a tough time with reading come and read to the dogs. With the dogs they are more confident and seem to open up more. I went through the reading therapy training now I just need to find the time to take Ruby up to the library to do some observing before getting her started. You'd think this would be easy, but with the kids and their schedules I just have not been able to find the time to do it. So this summer I am determined to get this completed so Ruby and I can finally get started!
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