Weekly Preview and Review

Last week, we were at homeschool camp from Sunday to Wednesday night. The weather was really only good on Tuesday, but Wednesday was really rainy. We had planned to pack up Wednesday night (instead of Thursday morning) and head home early anyway because we needed to borrow a van to get the camper home, but the rain made us glad we were leaving. We relaxed around the fire all week and the kids played with their friends. Bob and David went home every night, though, because of work. David did get to spend one night at camp since he had the following day off work.

The week itself was fun. I put some pictures up on facebook. We have a lot of scheduled (optional) activities but also lots of downtime for sitting around the fire or just hanging out.

He has only been getting 12 hours scheduled at work instead of the 28 he was hired to work. I hope they change that, because he will have a hard time saving up enough money this way.

We are all sharing one car right now, though, so at least his schedule has been easy to manage in that sense. The van seems beyond the scope of Bob's knowledge, but he has one more thing to try and we are praying that it works.

Thursday we had karate, although all 5 of us were over-tired from camp week.
Friday - hmmm... I dropped Bob off at work. Later, some of us went to some garage sales and then picked up Bob from work. James had soccer practice.
Saturday, James and David went to see a movie with a friend and I went to Shakespeare in the Park. The girls stayed home with their dad and had s'mores around the fire.

I worked only 15 hours this week, so it was sure nice to not have to worry about my work hours while at camp. The previous week, however, I worked 25 in preparation for taking some time off this past week.

8/4 Sunday - Church
Monday - Work 5, Karate, Soccer Practice (J)
Tuesday - Work 5
Wednesday - Work 5, Beach?
Thursday - Work 5, Karate, Campout (J)
Friday - Work 5, Campout (J), Beach?
Saturday - Campout (J)

This week is the beginning of my planning for fall and getting the house back in order. It's a WRECK! Some lesson planning and getting things scheduled will be the main order of business.

We have two beach day opportunities this week - one at Lake Huron and one at our regular lake. If the weather isn't HOT though, we probably will not go to Lake Huron. And whether or not we go on Friday we depend on how the rest of our week has gone.

James is going to Pow Wow with the Royal Rangers. He loves that! He will miss a couple soccer practices while he is gone.