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The fact that it is now August is really blowing my mind! I have so many things to do to get ready for school….it isn’t even a little funny. Fortunately for me, my girls are really excited to get back to work and are always pretty motivated (easy to say as they are still only 6). Over the summer, I had some grandiose plans of projects, crafts, and educational adventures. In fact, here is a sampling of what I intended to accomplish:

1.  Finish up all the little homeschooling odds and ends: workbooks, lists, lesson plans, projects.
2. Completely clean my house and purge a ton of stuff in preparation of the new school year.
3. Travel and and make great memories.
4. Start a blog about homeschooling.
5. Teach my youngest to sleep through the night. Or even halfway through.
6. Organize all my to-do lists.

Things I have actually done this summer:

1. Decided that most teachers do NOT finish all of their books, workbooks, lesson plans and projects.
2. Purged a few things and bought a whole bunch more, mostly unneeded. Barely kept the mess at bay all summer long.
3. Made it about 30 minutes down the road on a day long road trip and turned around due to multiple factors which need not be discussed. Memories, yes. Fun, not really.
4. Started a blog about homeschooling. At the same time, realized that starting said blog is certainly the easy part and continuing will most likely be the actual challenge.
5. Allowed my youngest to slide into the laziest, most ill-advised sleep schedule in the history of toddlers.
6. Discovered website that might possibly allow a new career in the making of to-do lists but as yet have not actually fully utilized said website. For your consideration: Wunderlist.

In addition to these worthy accomplishments I have: NOT purchased needed school supplies, NOT set up several appointments I’ve been putting off, NOT put the van into the shop for pesky issues just barely still covered by warranty, NOT read any of the book for my Sunday School class, NOT started elimination to diet to get to the root of allergy issues, NOT finally had that yard sale and NOT totally made-over my grocery buying system.

On the other hand I have: played outside with the kids, read to the girls some of my favorite childhood books, spent some time with extended family, made some cash by selling unneeded items, kept the kids fed, clothed, and relatively clean, and lost all the baby weight. So there’s that.

Oh and I taught the baby to feed himself, thanks to the Boon suction Bowl. Actually, he just picked up the fork the one time but as you can see, I was clever enough to capture it on camera so I think I deserve some credit.