Oh Mr, Postman!

One of the challenging things about summer

is keeping the kids from spending too much time doing this:

or this:

or this:

There is certainly time and room for electronics, IMO.

They work hard in school, get good grades

and this is their time off.

However, the voice of guilt creeps in

and after a while, we either go somewhere and do something,

or I send them outside,

or we work on one of our projects.

This year, each kid has been working on the lost art of letter writing.

This is touched on in school but not taught as it used to be.

Plus, with the advent of email, it seems that no one even SENDS letters anymore.

But, writing letters is an important skill

and it is a real treat to those who receive them.

So I taught about the salutation, body and closing of a letter.

I taught about the proper addressing of envelopes.

Yay, me. lol

We have a list on the wall of things the kids want to do,

places they want to go and things they want to see.

Tomorrow we will go to a Pick Your Own farm,

knocking another item off the list.

Rob will be taking Kate to see Twelfth Night, which is one of her items, as well.

Preparations continue for my trip to the beach,

T- minus 7 days and counting!