School's Out! (sort of) and Linky Promise II

"School's Out, School's Out, Kiddies let their Teacher out"
...(Or is it the other way around?)

Most of you know that we home school. I hope to expound a little on our learning plans for the summer in a post coming up soon...we still plan on doing some schoolwork and some plain ole fun learning a bit through the summer...(we're always learning, by the way!)
but our regular, everyday studying ended last Friday, and I have to say that it feels a bit strange. I'm a little at a loss on the one hand...but on the other, I feel almost like a kid myself with all this freedom!
In actuality, I absolutely love home schooling...but I am ready for a little break.

My second grader was such a good student this year, and my four-turning-five year old did well, too. And I think we had some fun along the way.
So maybe I should be celebrating the end of the year break...like doing a cartwheel followed by hailing the ice cream man. But the cartwheel thing might get the neighbors to talking...
So, I think for now I'll just revel in a little extra reading time here and there... maybe even start scrapbooking again.
Oh yes...and you may notice I'm even starting to comment again on some of your posts!

Anyway, I wanted to hold true to my promise of completing my 12 links to current posts that I loved reading...I did six already....and so, finally- here are six more.
(If you are not among them, remember I could only pick 6 out of all the ones that I loved reading this past week or so. And you know I loved reading WAY more than six posts this past week!)
So, if you all can, be sure to check these out:

1) Stop by at Barbie's....she recently gave birth to her fourth beautiful little girl and she told about having to laugh when things go wrong. If you scroll down, she gave such beautiful descriptions of her love and gratefulness for her newborn- and all of her family- during these first precious days.

2) One of my newer friends is Corrie at One Gal's Life in the Raw. She writes with such fresh humor, it's almost as if you're chatting with her while sipping a latte over at S*tarbuck's. Even when she has a bad day, as in her recent post.

3) Judith at Flight Song (and the mother of Barb and Bev, as many of you know) wrote so beautifully of her grand daughter's upcoming wedding next Saturday.

4) I was blessed reading this post from Morning Glory. Her honesty about being true with our own feelings- and her obvious love for her husband- were so refreshing.

5) A riveting story of a day in a sailor's life back in 1967 held me in suspense by Pamela from The Dust will Wait.

6) And if you ever wanted to glimpse a charming way to celebrate your daughter's 12th birthday, and see grace and beauty shine through her eyes and those of her friends, go read Grafted Branch's account. (Plus, you get to listen to Claire de Lune play delicately in the background...)

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Although I mentioned the ice cream man earlier, I must say that indulging in this cold delicacy hasn't exactly been on my mind too much in the past ten days or so...nothing but cool weather, rain and overcast skies. It has not seemed like June at all, but more like March- on a really bad coming in like a lion day.
But late yesterday afternoon, the clouds began to billow slowly away...revealing patches of blue and sunlight. And today's forecast calls for 83- a good twenty degrees warmer than it was just a couple days before!
Just when I was going to bring in the last of the wood and light a fire....

I think this Thursday is the end of the Spring Reading Thing. And again, I did not meet my overly ambitious goals. But I did get some good reading in (and that's what the challenge is really all about, right?) so I hope to post a couple reviews later this week...stay tuned!

And now, I must go read the second book in the Mitford series that I picked up at my church library...(can you tell which one of the books on my list that I really liked?)
*Edited to correct an error typed last night at midnight...and there's probably others- just overlook them!

Blessings!