Heat, Swimming Pool and Summer's End

It feels so strange to be wrapping up summer already. Where did it go? After working with my morning students, Sam and I went to the pool with a friend of mine who has 5 children. It was a lot of fun for me and a real gift to my friend. Not only did her 5 children have a great time (one said it was the best day he's had all summer), but tonight her children will all sleep very soundly--just as her husband returns from a business trip.

That means we had another day with very little "school." Sam did spelling (Spelling Power--takes less than 10 minutes each time) and practiced his violin.

Tomorrow we have a whole day (9-3) of martial arts with a married couple that are coming to teach us just for kicks, I guess. They aren't charging us, they just love doing this kind of thing and are friends of the Brown's (our instructors). Sam will be demonstrating 2 kata's in order to earn his purple stripe.

Dwight is taking antibiotics for bronchitis which came on rather suddenly and will be missing our "mini-camp." I'm trying to talk him into coming as photographer.

I'll report on our mini-camp if I'm not too sore to type tomorrow evening :-)