Slip Slidin' Summer

Homeschooling--and life--took a turn for the bizarre when my son had an incident on the slip-n-slide. He slipped, but......didn't really slide so much as he fell. After a ride in the ambulance, some x-rays, and a consultation with an orthopedic surgeon, he went home in a brace, and now has a little plastic thing holding his arm together.

We had 3 ace bandages in the closet which the little girls have had fun with since then. They play 9-1-1 and take turns bandaging each other up. It looks like a real trauma ward around here with assorted "broken" arms & legs and occasional head wounds.

But the arm seems to be healing up, and life is getting back to normal--or as normal as it gets.

The curriculum we ordered for next year arrived today. The kids were pretty excited to see that big delivery truck in the driveway....right up until they figured out what was in the box. They weren't too disappointed in the end, since my younger ones had been hoping to move onto computer-based work, and that is what was in the box. Still, they would probably rather have seen any number of other gadgets coming out of that package.

Funny to be getting things for next year already. We are all looking forward to a bit of a break. We will be targeting reading comprehension this summer, using some of the tools from my life as a speech pathologist. I've been really excited over the past month to see the changes in my daughter's reading comprehension with the little bit of extra work we've been able to squeeze in. I can't wait to get some more time to help all of them get that extra reading edge!