confession

I feel like I've been keeping a secret. A fairly big one. And strangely, I'm not feeling very guilty about it. The truth is that I'm not having very much fun homeschooling right now. I really expected to bounce back from The February Slump...but I just haven't. I'm putting on a cheerful face and we are getting stuff done, but it definitely isn't my favorite part of life right now. It probably sounds horrible, but I'm losing interest. I think I've found myself in a selfish little spot and I'm getting sort of comfy here. Homeschooling requires that I give so much of my time away. Frankly I'd just rather be doing other things with it. I'm not sure where all this will lead. Maybe I'll feel better after a nice long summer break...but maybe not? Either way, days like today are getting me through...

We took a little field trip to the dam.

We went down below, but we didn't see any salmon. (Not that we were patient enough to wait more than about 2 minutes.)

Ian LOVES all the machines.

That's the fish bypass. The baby salmon get dumped into the river there. Looks like a pretty fun water slide to me!

We've been here lots of times so we gave ourselves the self-guided tour.

And then we headed out to picnic.

Park blankets are the best. For kissing...

and resting.

Happy Friday Friends...there's no school for a couple of days :)