It's Summer!

It is summer! We went on vacation to Lake Gaston a couple of weeks ago and had a great time. Camden was at Camp Willowrun for the week and we stayed at the home of some friends. We had a relaxing time going out on the boat, swimming and fishing and seeing friends that we had not seen in several months. It also made me long for a lake house of our own! Maybe oneday we will be able to have one, until then I will dream and use houses of our friends.

Camden had a great time at camp! The activities he signed up for were fishing, swimming and archery/riflery. He had a great counselor and is already to go back again next year. Some friends of ours run the camp and they told me that Camden would run up to them everyday and tell them it was the "best camp he had ever been to!" It is also the only camp he has been to but I am so glad he enjoyed himself.

For the 4th of July we stayed close to home this year. We went to see the Carolina Mudcats play Sat night and enjoyed the fireworks after the game. It looked like we were going to have storms all night but thankfully they passed the game by and all we dealt with were sprinkles at the beginning. The kids got Muddy the Mudcat to sign their foam fingers and we all had a great time.

As soon as we got back from vacation I started some laundry and lo and behold my washing machine broke! We have had it for 8 years and never had a problem until now but it was going to cost almost as much for a service call and repair than what we could have gotten a new one for. Thankfully Sears was having a sale over the holiday weekend and we went and bought a new machine and it was delivered Sunday. We got a front loader, not an expensive one. It is sooooooo quiet and since it is a front loader the kids can start doing some (supervised) loads of laundry...yeah!

We have taken our house off the market for now. The builder reduced the price of one exactly like ours that has been sitting for almost a year to $15,000 less than we were asking for ours. Since we could not drop that much off the price we decided to take it off the market and see if he sells the other house and then relist it. Since we do have some equity we may take this time to replace the carpets with hardwoods in the kitchen and living area.

Well, as of right now the kids are changing schools due to redistricting. I am not too happy with where they are going but thankfully the Asst. Prin at their old school is now the Principal at the school they are supposed to go to. I am going this week to a open house for a new private school that is opening in a few weeks. It would be a year round track like they are used to and they would get more one on one teaching which I really think Camden would benefit from. It is a great curriculm but strict and we would have tuition to pay. We cannot afford to send them both but the school does offer scholarships and if it is enough and everything works out we will more than likely send them. I have also applied to see if there are any openings for clerical or Teacher Assistants at the school since no openings have come up in Franklin County like we all thought there would. Pray that if Thales Academy is where we should send the kids that money would not be an issue and that there would be a job opening. If Franklinton is where they need to be then I pray that the Lord would give us the peace of mind that we need to send them there or if there is another option that it would be revealed soon.

Hope everyone is having a great summer! I will post some vacation pics soon:)