Monthly Goals

I have started 'monthly goals' to start seeing some acomplishment in my life. (not that the kids aren't enough!) Or to see if I can stick with/to something. Anyway. The goal for July was to write in my journal every day. I had read back through past entries and decided that I was a pretty good 3-4 times a year writer. But this is goal making, so I committed myself to every day. And I did it! Yea! 31 entries. I don't think I'm going to continue the daily writing thing, because a few, maybe 8, of those entries were three liners. I think weekly or twice a week will work pretty well and still enable me to keep up with whats been happening. Now it's August. My goal for August is to post a new blog post every Tuesday and Friday. I think I can commit to this. Plus there will be school starting and camping and maybe a visit to T.O. to see some chickens and a very special Moki dog (and Helen and Al), parades, and maybe squash pancakes, so I will have no shortage of activities to share. You with me? I don't know if it all will be current stuff or if once a week is "current affairs" and the other time is a "blast from the past" (three years). We'll see. A quick recap of the summer so far: The ring of fire and watching venus move across the sun was great fun. I bought some sun safe glasses for viewing and overall it was pretty cool. The kids didn't understand really what the point was.

Swimmming lessons since June for B and K. K is proving quite adept. She enjoys learning the different strokes and is a star when it comes to floating on her back. B is getting lots of practice as well. B is doing pretty okay. His backstroke is good, his front crawl leaves some to be desired, but he happily gets in the pool everyday and practices holding his breath underwater in the tub. We've had rain, rain, and more rain. All July loooong. It's always humid and the kids are always sticky and no one wants to play outside. I don't remember it being like this before. Usually we get a day or two and it's such a blessed relief you wish it could be rainy more. Not so this year. I am ready for it to STOP raining. We live in a desert, c'mon. Last week we had 3 days where there was no rain and no cloud cover. It was 107, but it felt suprisingly cool after all that humidity. Summer school ended the end of June, summer preschool ended the 18th of July. She thought she had to do summer preschool because of her horrible showing at her preschool graduation in May. Maybe that will be a "blast from the past" post. We've had lots of squash from our garden and across the street at the community garden. We finally have some red tomatoes. Rachels peach tree also gave us quite a few small peaches, an all of this rain (if it stops soon so they don't get moldy) will give us a nice crop of pomegranates. I'd like to make pomegranate jelly, we'll see. 2nd grade starts August 15th, Kindergarten starts August 22nd. This is just a nice bonus post for August so I can round it out to an even 10 posts this month. After I download my camera, there will be more pictures. Okay. See you tomorrow!