Excited & Scared

       I just sent the kids off to school for their last day before summer vacation and it's only a half day so it will go by pretty fast.  As I sit here thinking about our summer plans I find myself having very strong emotions between excitement and feeling scared.  The thing I am most excited about is the ability to sleep in from now on!  I love, love, love my sleep!  I am also excited to just play.  But as I think about the next couple of months my heart starts to race and I feel like bracing myself.  I feel like time is going to speed up in preparing for the trek, when I actually want it to slow down.  From here on out we have something planned almost every week that involves the trek, and while the kids are still in school I feel like we still have time, but that hour glass is quickly losing it's sand. 

       So my goal is to make it through the next month and a half with harmony still in my home.  Me having patience with the kids, and the kids having patience with each other.  I will call it success if we can manage that.  Then come August, I am hoping it will be all play with very little work.  That is how a summer should be!