I've been in a time machine

Oh my how the time does fly! Incredible! I have actually been in a time machine and have written this post in the future and when I finish and return to the present we will still be in April. Yeah, I know. Nice try, right? I have been so busy with my Z's I don't know where to start. I suppose I will just start with the summer. I weighed the pros and cons and I have decided not to enroll the kids in summer session for homeschool. There were several reasons for this one major factor being that I wanted us to have a VACATION together. And they are kids and I want them to get to be kids for a while. We are having a no-fuss-educational-summer-vacation. All in the world that means is I didn't want myself or the kids to get burnt out so I am taking the vacation approach to our schooling. No school "officially" but everything that I can make educational I will. And that also means doing things with the kids I didn't have time for during the last school year such as library time. Our library offers a free summer reading program complete with craft projects and professional guest speakers and demonstrations twice a week and the kids are reading, reading, reading and it isn't a chore for them. They love the attention and time I give when I read to them and the bigger Z's love to read to the little Z's and we are learning new words and definitions and cultures and histories. It is wonderful! We also go swimming twice or more per week and have been fishing a couple of times. Creativity is our theme this summer and we hope to end it with a photojournal of our last school year and enter our crafts from the past year in the agricultural fair. We have so much to do and it's gonna be a blast getting it done!