Bye-Bye Summer!

Tomorrow school starts back up. Usually I feel like the summer has flown and I'm not ready. But I think I'm ready this time. We had a full, amazing, productive summer.

I achieved all but one of my (realistic) summer goals. We won't mention the unrealistic ones.

• We traveled. A lot.
• All three kids made progress with swimming. 
• One child is 90% of the way to riding a bike without training wheels, another is about 40% there. 
• All of the rooms were cleaned with toy pieces reconnected to the appropriate container, all books returned to the bookshelves, and the basement even cleaned and vacuumed. 
• Too small clothes have been removed, the next season's clothes are ready. 
• The kids' picked up new chores. Ben graduated from taking out the trash and recycling to helping with dinner, folding laundry, and starting a load now and then. Kyrie and Ev are handling the trash together. 
• We did some cooking together. The kids made: waffles, eggs, homemade mac'n'cheese, cookies, and a few other dishes they each chose. 
• The school pantry was cleaned and organized as well as the desk. 

But sadly, I still never organized my pictures. Some are still on my phone, some on the camera, and a few made it to the desktop, a few more to the laptop and none to any kind of reliable storage. (Sigh.)

So tomorrow, we get back into the routine of school. I'm not sure how I'll manage it all, but I never am. And somehow it all works out.