It's so hard to believe--Joshua graduated last Friday! I'm having a hard time getting my mind around the fact that I'll be homeschooling just one child this fall. By the time we start the new school year, I suppose I'll have comprehended it!
Graduation was nicely done. The homeschooling convention which hosts it always makes the graduation a memorable occasion for the families of graduates and those who attend the convention. We were so glad that we some of our extended family was able to be here. Thanks to those of you who came! Joshua was really glad you were here! I actually didn't break down as much as I did with Heather...well, not while we were on the stage with Joshua anyway.
Saturday we had not one, but two track meets. There were junior high and senior high medal meets at different schools here. Joshua and Hannah placed in several events each and Hannah again had a personal best in high jump! She cleared 4'8"! Grandma and Grandpa L. were able to stay for the meets, so they saw Hannah use her long legs to sail over the bar. We missed a lot of Joshua's meet, but we saw him run the 400m dash to win a silver medal.
Today we spent some time outside planting some flowers that Mom brought to me. After pulling out a bunch of rocks, Joshua had to get a bucket of dirt so that we had something in which to plant the flowers. Then we needed a place to put all those rocks that we'd dug up, so we started throwing them in a hole that was from an uprooted tree during construction. Hannah's dog, Logan, thought we were throwing away his treasures, so he tried and tried to pick up the rocks that we tossed in. We finally finished the flower bed by planting an old-fashioned rose, some lily-of-the-valley, and a few wildflowers that Hannah dug in the woods. Since we let the goats wander freely at times to graze, and the dogs don't understand that the freshly dug dirt is not for them, we fenced the bed in hopes of actually having the flowers there for more than a few hours!
Tomorrow there is a forecast for rain, so I suppose I'll have to actually do some of the inside work that I really don't want to do. I'd rather be outside digging in the dirt!
