Playing Catch-up

This is Vacation Bible School week at church. Although I normally take part, this summer I have elected to decline participation. I am staying home, cleaning my house, tending my gardens, and attempting to catch up on home schooling paperwork. Ben and Hannah are catching a ride to church with Bethany each morning and I am enjoying a quiet house. Yesterday I did dishes, washed laundry, watered my vegetable garden, and picked a few blue berries. (I also took Nate to the other side of the city to have his guitar tuner fixed.) Today I finished up last year's quarter reports for Ben and Hannah and mailed them, along with their test scores, in to the school (breathe sigh of relief) and tomorrow I will need to pull out the books and see what is on the table for September (groan loudly!). Fifteen years ago when I started this job it was an adventure. We had fun with friends, went on field trips, and did wonderful projects. Three years into it I realized I could not see even a glimmer at the end of the tunnel and panicked. I was very much afraid the tunnel had no end. But, it is finally beginning to look as though the tunnel has an end after all. Ben is starting ninth grade and Hannah will be there next year. Maybe some day I will actually catch up with it after all!