School is out!!

I always love the beginning of summer vacation.  Not having to get anyone out the door in the morning is just so wonderful.  Not that my littlest sleeps any longer, but now I can enjoy that couple of hours, (yes I said hours) I have with him.  5:30 the little stinker still gets up.  The last couple of weeks have been better, but he is back to his ole sweet early morning self.  So this summer I decided I was going to try something new.  I am not much of a schedule type person, I like to be very...flexible, so I usually have no set plans just lots of work to do.  But this summer I decided to do some homeschool with the kids.  Obviously it has only been a couple of days, but the kids are loving it.  On Sunday we wrote down themes for each week of the summer and what we wanted to study.  This week is cool places in the world. Yesterday we did Death Valley, today Crater Lake and Mt. Rushmore.  Tomorrow the Great Wall of China, and then the VAlley of 10,000 smokes.  The kids came up with these places all on their own and it has been fun.  They have spelling lists, which is kinda hard to find hard enough words for Brooklyn, but super easy for Emree!  We got a world map and a map of the US and put them up in our kitchen.  Anyway it has been lots of fun and hopefully it stays this way!