Summer is here. Lazy, crazy days of summer. Daisy and Brownie Scouts, homeschool gym, homeschool art, science club and soccer are all over for now. Time to relax, except for the fact the softball starts next week along with summer school. Abigail asked to take some summer school classes this year. They are really cool little short courses. She is taking Spanish, Art Around the World and Fit Kids (gym games). Plus swimming lessons are offered too, so both girls are taking those. You can't beat the price. Abigail's taking 3 classes in one session and both girls have 2 sessions of swimming lesson; the total cost was $15. Unfortunately I was thinking the sessions were 2 weeks long. I was willing to work around 3 hours of classes every day for 2 weeks and swimming lessons every day for 4 weeks. Unfortunately, they are 3 weeks long, and I didn't realize it until too late. So they have swimming lessons every day for SIX weeks. Ugh. I don't do so well with long term commitments that happen every single day. I'm really not looking forward to this, but at least they will be a lot more comfortable in the water by the end of this. That will be very good for when we go to Mexico in the fall.

The garden is loving the hot weather we are having here lately. I've harvested a ton of spinach and salad greens already. Much of the broccoli (we have 40 plants so far) is getting ready for the first harvest, and I'll need to start the second group of seedlings very soon. My carrots had a really low germination rate so far this year, unfortunately, but the squash and pumpkin vines are growing nicely. I'm trying to grow two of the squash (one summer and a small winter one) vertically this year. It would save so much garden space if this is successful. I normally don't grow much squash because I don't want to give up that much garden for those long vines, but it's something we really like to eat. I'm also trying potatoes for the first time this year. They look beautiful. I need to hill them up some more this week. My pear trees are fully leafed out now, and the cherries that are on my little cherry tree are starting to get a little blush at the bottom.