Our summer break is actually just beginning. One of the great things about homeschool is getting to make your own calendar. Taking your breaks during everyone else’s school year means having the pool, playground, beach, trails, library, and pretty much anything else you want to do nearly all to yourself. For a tribe of introverts that’s a really beautiful thing. So we scheduled our summer break for the month of August as everyone else is heading back to class.

But even with our break just about to start it feels as though we’ve squeezed in a whole summer’s worth of summer already. We’ve grown things, found things, had playful moments and quiet ones, and we’ve eaten a LOT of ice cream.