July 1 is when the District allows homeschoolers to start counting educational hours. It’s been nice to not have to leap to the spreadsheet every time they read a book or sing “Orange Crush” or pick up their spelling workbook… but tomorrow, I shall start. (Camp counts, believe me.)

This weekend they went to a birthday party of a close friend.

And Béla sent me love poems

Earlier this week Claudia went to the doctor — did you know there were years where medical phobia attached to PTSD kept me from attending their appointments? So much for that fear. Claude got her first HPV vaccine. Big girl. She also needs stronger eyeglasses, which I’ve known for some time.

Time to get some camp bags ready.