Friends and Family and Food

What could be better than celebrating a holiday than enjoying a BBQ with friends, family and food? I'm not sure....this was pretty much a highlight for me. I love having people over and it was so nice to be able to entertain three of my oldest (longest) friends and my sister and all their families. Our kids have all grown up together.....some of them met when they were less than 2 years old and others were born after the friendships had begun. I am so blessed to watch these kids continue to get along and grow up together, through all the various stages of life.

Ken gets back on Friday (assuming all his travel connections fall into place) and I am on the same kick I always get on when he travels. I like to try to get the house clean and straightened up and de-cluttered as much as possible. I know he likes to be in a clean, decluttered house and I love to do this for him. I figure it is a way I can support him while he is away. Since he has been gone so long, I have had more of a chance to do this, although I only started last week. I am now in the process of tackling our walk-in closet. Well, it is now a walk-in closet....last week it looked more like a storage shed in the center with clothes that weren't easily accessible around the edges. Now, it is a closet again! But, what to do with all the stuff that was in there that shouldn't have been. I am slowly sorting things out, but I definitely struggle with too much stuff. I keep chipping away though.

How is school going for us? We have started week 7 and it is going good over-all. I have had to tweak some things and one of the things I need to focus on teaching the kids is study skills....how to actually study for a test, not just read the material once. This year things have definitely gotten harder, which is good, but that means more work needs to be put into the subjects. What they used to be able to do and retain the information needs to be modified. But, that is the beauty of what we are doing....being able to adjust and modify and personalize and adapt and learn from our mistakes.

Feel free to stop by if you are ever in the neighborhood....you never know what you might find going on at our house.