tuesday.

Days have been too busy to have very much sit-down writing time for me.

With homeschool (and maybe all school) you not only have to fight against spring fever, you have to fight against fall fever.

I think fall fever is harder to beat than spring fever. (But that’s probably only because right now it’s fall (ish) and so whatever struggle I find myself in at the moment feels like the hardest one – you know?)

I want to be outside all day long – but I don’t want to be doing school all day long.

Some days we compromise – we do school outside.

Today we sat at the picnic table in the sunshine and read and drew and checked off history and geography and literature and science and trekked back in for math and other such stuff.

Ryder comes home tomorrow and there has been much rejoicing in our home. I’m pretty anxious about proper puppy care after surgery.

I still have’t finished my Plexus post – my follow through is not on target this week, guys.

I think today maybe – I need less words and more pictures.

Pictures of cute kids on a rainy field trip atop the tallest mountain in South Carolina.

And of a little fella who should probably stop sucking his thumb but whose momma is probably not going to worry about that just now.

Pictures of a little girl so stoked to begin her season of gymnastics. (PS – Please don’t let her know that gymnastics isn’t exactly run on a “seasons” schedule. It’s the plan I’m going with for now – alright?)

And pictures of girls who run so fast and whose legs are so long that we can all practically share clothing these days. (And I can just barely beat them in a foot race. Just barely, I tell you. But I’ll take the barely for as long as I can.)