The Weekly Wrap-Up: Making Plans, Playing Little House and Doodling

Ahh...Friday. It's that a lovely day? We love it here because we usually don't do school on Fridays, occasionally we do, but not usually. And today we are off--yea!

This has been a productive week, even though there have been moments when I wondered. We continue to make good strides toward the end of our school year. We still have about 40+ days left in our year though. I have already discussed with the kiddos (not to ask their thoughts, but to give them a "heads up") that we will continue to do a little school through the summer although it will be a very relaxed schedule. I just can't take the summer brain drain that we had last fall. So while it will probably just be a couple of mornings a week, we will continue doing some school through the summer, taking off a week here and there. Do you homeschool year-round or take the summer off?

I am getting excited about school for next year already:) I think it's this time of the year, I just get all into making my lists of new curriculum and books needed and get excited about book sales and all that. In fact, I am off to a used curriculum sale that a homeschool group in a neighboring city is having this morning. Then in a couple of weeks I'm going to be attending the annual homeschool convention in Nashville. I am really looking forward to checking out the vendors! Are you planning to attend any conventions this year?

I'll leave you today with a few shots of happenings around our home.

The Princess has had a renewed interest in playing Little House this week and

has spent a majority of her time in this costume. So cute!

Mr. B has been enjoying his new "doodle" book from his Uncle Steven.

They've both been enjoying spending lots of time outdoors!

We love our reading time together every night.

I usually read to them from a fictional book,

then our Bible story book and then

Vince reads again to them from Mr. B's new Action Bible

just because they love it so much:)

I hope you have a wonderful weekend! Enjoy time with those you love!

This post is linked to the Weekly Wrap-Up at Weird Unsocialized Homeschoolers.

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