Almost to Summer!

As you can tell, we've been busy lately. Mornings are filled with CAT testing. I can't wait until we are done! Just a couple more kids to finish up their testing. Then we have a couple weeks of finishing up the last of school work. I think homeschooler moms appreciate summer way more than others. :-)

Drum has been taking his Driver's Ed course. He has one more week of three hours a day, and then we hope to get him right in for his test, so that we have the summer roads to practice driving on. Time sure flies!

Laundry and "What's there to eat?" are the two constants in my life right now. To keep up with all the other details, I work for the Scriptural approach, "whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might." It works for almost everything. I've only found a problem with that philosophy in the eating category. :-)

I'm actually up to 1 1/2 miles in jogging with no shin splints. Slow and steady wins the race! I'm so grateful to be able to jog. I'm trying to be patient with the fact that I can't just go out like when I was younger, and just run 3 miles. I have to s-l-o-w-l-y work up to it. I've noticed the extra around my middle doesn't drop off like when I was younger either. It has the slow idea as well. So slow I lose motivation!! Good Grief!!

I've picked up taking ballet lessons again. I was overjoyed to find I could keep up physically with the exercises. (My prep work at home paid off.) Keeping up mentally is another challenge. My teacher likes to keep things new - every week. This sure works on my brain!! Glissade, jete, plie, pas de cha, keep going?! Sometimes I am just moving across the floor trying to get kinda close to what I'm supposed to do. It's a good thing I'm determined despite age, ability, and weight; or I'd die of embarrassment every week. :-) I sure do love ballet!