Sunday, July 26, 2015

July of Family

July has flown by in a whir of busy weekends and packed full weeks visiting family, teaching, packing, and moving. For the first two weeks in July, I was still teaching summer school. During that time, I started to dive into curriculum planning. The joys of lining up lessons, units, and timing to standards and expectations. It also started my multiple weekends visiting families.

July 4th, I headed to my brother's in Minneapolis where we made DELICIOUS food. Skirt steak with chimmy churry sauce, grilled German potato salad, fresh fruit, and homemade lemonade.





After wrapping up summer school, I headed to Madison for a sister weekend. There we enjoyed amazing food which included a Brazilian Steakhouse and an amazing Thai Restaurant. The amazing experience of finding Far from the Madding Crowd in a bargain theater which was a great movie experience with my sisters and the wonderful lady who gasped the whole way through. Pedicures and talking throughout the whole weekend made for another fantastic weekend.



The following week was filled with packing, packing, and more packing as I prepared to move. But before moving was camping with my sister. We had a beautiful campsite (a lake front site) and highly enjoyed our experience!


We arrived back Sunday afternoon. Naomi swapped places with Philip, and then the moving began. We moved Sunday evening and Monday morning. Plus short trips Monday evening and Tuesday afternoon of random things. Good thing it was only a move across town. We unpacked, cleaned, organized, and took many a trip to Walmart. By Wednesday, most everything was finished, and Philip headed on his way, and my week ended with unpacking the last couple of boxes and catching up on my grad class work and Mom and Dad stopping by for a short visit.

Now, I'm heading into the final week of July, and all my visits with family for the month of July are finished. It is back to work I go as I school plan and continue to work on my class. Of course, there will still be time for relaxation, books, movies, and friends.

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