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Girls' Camp Week

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  This is my view as I start writing this post. :) On Monday, we got Nature Angel off to the Girls' High Adventure camp that preceded Girls' Camp. How grateful I am for shared photo albums, because I can include pictures of events that I was not at! All of the YCLs gathered together before leaving! Favorite friends Ready to raft! Off they go! In the evening, there was a coronation ceremony for the 4 girls who were voted Camp Queens.   They were some of the oldest girls who were trusted by their peers to be leaders at the camp where the theme was "Daughters of the King." The 4 Queens with their sashes, crowns, and megaphones :) Crowns notwithstanding, they're still just a bunch of fun-loving, silly girls. Once the high adventure part of camp was over, they headed out to prepare camp for the rest of the girls.  This is the registration/welcome station. The rest of us had a quiet day at home during which we did chores, read, and met with our case manager for quarterl...
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Just Missed the Tornado!

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 Last Sunday we went over to Super Star and Mr. E--'s house to meet their puppy. She was so excited to meet us!!!! She's a blur in every picture I took, because she was in constant motion for the whole hour we were there.  We could tell she was starting to get tired as we left, so I'm sure she slept the rest of the day away, but we all had so much fun together. Monday was difficult.  I had a field trip planned, but there was just enough rain to wreck that.  The disappointment was more than Beowulf could bear, so he was irritable to the point of volatility all day.  His anger rubbed off on other kids until I was barely keeping everyone safe.  I made Brother and Beowulf (the two most likely to explode) run errands with me, and even though they like running errands, they were mad at me because I didn't give them the choice to stay home.   I found an alternate activity, but because of continued angry outbursts, I didn't feel safe taking the kids out...
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Lots of Rain this Week

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 We had absolutely gorgeous days mixed with lots and lots of rain.  Somehow the overall feeling was one of cold and gloom.   I wonder if that has more to do with my mental state than the actual weather. (I'm going through a rough patch that has lasted long enough that I've finally gotten my meds adjusted.) This picture is from a couple of weeks ago, but I just found it in Little Princess' picture gallery.   We were delighted to get to celebrate our friend Z--'s high school graduation.  We've known him since he was about 5 years old, so it was practically a family celebration. On Monday , the kids walked with Sir Walter Scott in the morning.  It rained off and on all the rest of the day, so we had a quiet day indoors.  In the evening, we went to dinner with some church friends.  They have a family of 8 children--all around the same ages as our 12.  They're down to 5 at home; we're down to 8 at home.  Their kids are all as kind a...
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We're Basically Done for the Year

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Nature Angel is done with everything. Little Princess is still finishing up Biology, Astronomy, Women in Science, Chinese, Russian, and Algebra 2.  She's very close to finishing up most of them.  A couple of them will keep her busy through the summer--between camp sessions. Ladybug is done with everything but Math 6.  She'll work on that through the summer with just a couple of weeks off during and for a week or so after Girls' Camp. Mister Man is done with everything. Brother is done with everything except Pre-Algebra.  Pre-Algebra was not required by me this year because he did all of Math 7, too.  He wanted to keep going.  I will definitely pause his math for the week of Boys' Camp and (if he'll let me) another month as well. Beowulf is done with everything. Lola is done with everything (she finished her cursive workbook this week). Baymax is done with everything but his cursive workbook, and he's really close to finishing that. I'm still organiz...
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