July has been a crazy busy month.  Here’s a random listy update:

In Summer Mom-School news we’re going to go with option 3, so we’ll discuss Leadership Education August 1st and then tack on another day in September.

The 4th of July was wonderfully fun and laid back.  We just hung around the neighborhood, ate food, and set off our own fireworks.

Logie made a happy birthday America cake.  Dad added the sparkler.

Our trip has been full of visits with best friends

and cousins.

Hunter and I were Barry’s cheering section at a mountain bike race at Brundage ski resort in McCall, Idaho.

He won his age category.  I sure married a super cool guy.

I sure love these mountains.  I guess it’s in my blood, but no matter where I’ve been or how long I’ve been away, the rocks and trees and rivers and lakes of Idaho just feel like home.  There’s no where that can compare.

How are you doing on reading the Leadership Education book? The discussion is scheduled for this Saturday July 11 at 8 am Mountain.

I had planned on doing this from vacation but am running into some scheduling problems. My husband is DYING to do a mountain bike race that morning, so we may or may not be in cell phone range that morning. Also the other Jessica (www.balancingeverything.com) has a surprise family thing that day. So I want to take votes on what to do:

1– Just send Barry to do his race without a cheering section and keep the discussion as scheduled.

2– Reschedule the discussion to 8 or 9 pm Mountain time that evening (which would be Sunday morning for April in Turkey, so that worries me with getting ready for church and everything).

3– Push our schedule back and tack on another Saturday in September so it would look like this:
August 1– Leadership Education: the Phases of Learning by Oliver and Rachel DeMille
August 22– The Well Trained Mind by Jessie Wise and Susan Wise Bauer
September 12– Teach Like Your Hair is on Fire by Rafe Esquith
September something– The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto

4– or push our schedule back and just take out Teach Like Your Hair is on Fire so the schedule would look like this:
July 11– vacation
August 1– Leadership Education: the Phases of Learning by Oliver and Rachel DeMille
August 22– The Well Trained Mind by Jessie Wise and Susan Wise Bauer
September 12– The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto

What think ye?