This time of year

is so wonderful!
I am relieved to be finished with the current school year - believe me, as tired as the students are of school, the teachers are just as exhausted and tired of it! So, I am thrilled to be out for summer. I am excited to be able to rest and relax and read junk novels. I am eager to learn new things at some professional development classes I've signed up to take this summer. I am thrilled to get to spend some one on one quality time with my daughter... we have visions of pools, museums, libraries (reading), painting, projects and zoos filling our heads.
It's also a little stressful due to money saving issues - although I trust that God will take care of us.
I am always amazed at the amount of projects and home improvement ideas that I can come up with to fill my summer. My husband is equally jealous and miffed about that. Jealous of the fact that I get to be home all summer and miffed that I come up with all this stuff to do, even though he's secretly excited to continue turning this house into our home - when we got married he moved into my house, which I had purchased from my parents (its the house my family lived in since I was in the 8th grade)... so I was in the process of converting it from my parent's house to my home, then we got married (he hates the color I painted the bathroom) and we've been making changes ever since.
Here we are - two in-service days left before summer can truly begin - and I have paint swatches for every room in the house. I doubt I can accomplish painting more than one room a day - the kitchen and part of the storage/pantry/laundry room are already done - that leaves the girls rooms (2), our bedroom, the living room & hall, and the bathroom... that only takes up half of his vacation... not sure how he'll feel about this plan, but I'm going to run it by him and see.
Enough for now.
Branna