School's Starting...

Most of the school districts here start up school again on Wednesday. I am looking forward to it very much! All of the museums and parks will go back to being calm and peaceful. ;-) We have some fun things planned for this upcoming year. Victoria is continuing with her ballet and Madeline will be starting ballet at the same time and location. They are also both continuing with swimming and gymnastics. Our homeschool group has park days planned through September, and in October will start back up with book report lunch and Lego club. There are also the monthly free museum days that are always very interesting. We saw a great Lincoln exhibit this last year. I’m looking forward to wandering through museums and having a relaxing picnic before browsing the used bookstores…

I read the Harry Potter series, by the way. Victoria finished up the Lemony Snicket books and told me she wanted to read Harry Potter next. I bought them all at Half Priced Books and read them in about two weeks. They were pretty fun and although some of the volumes were dark (the teacher torturing Harry with the horrid quill was painful to even read) I think since it all turns out in the end it will be fine. Light at the end of the tunnel and all that. Victoria is now on the third one and other than needing help with the names the first time, she’s doing great. I will probably wait until she is done with the series, and maybe for when the last movie is about to come out, before we watch the movies. We saw a bumbersticker at gymnastics the other day that said “Republicans for Voldemort”. What a timely opportunity to explain parody, pop culture, and politics in one fell swoop!

Kidlets are fighting so alas, I must go. Today is the last day of summer swim classes (5x a week in two week sets for a total of 30 lessons) and then regular 2x a week lessons start in two weeks. Whee!