Our Week in Review

Saturday, June 20 - Friday, June 26

Wow - I can't believe how fast the summer is flying by for us! We have been super-busy as usual - I'm not sure where that phrase, "long, lazy summer" comes from - obviously whoever said that didn't have two children involved in swim team!

Last week-end was incredible! Amber had a swim meet Friday - Sunday at Cleveland State. Friday and Saturday were both a prelim-finals format which means if a swimmer places in the top 9, they come back in the evening and swim that event again in finals. Amber had her best meet EVER! She made two more zone cuts for the Central Zone Championships which gives her a total of 5 zone cuts! She made her first two AAAA times, broke two more team records, and made it back to finals for ALL of her events! Congratulations, Amber - I can see the gills starting to peek through!

Amber has practice every night M-F and she also swims out at a long course pool on T, H. I do enjoy the long drive out to the long course pool, though, We have 2 hours of solid Harry Potter audio time between the drive out there and the drive home. We are towards the end of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" and will finish it (again) before the new movie comes out.

Mason swims M,W,F evenings. He had his first swim meet on Tuesday. He did great! He received three first place ribbons and one second place ribbon. Congratulations, Mason!

Other than those swimming highlights, Mason moved up to brown belt this past week in karate. Congratulations, Mason! Duncan already moved up to red belt, white stripe a few weeks ago. Belated congratulations to Duncan as well!

I have been slugging away at some organizational projects around the house, though the only one that was completed this week was the medicine cabinet. I have been continuing to plan our Ancient Greece unit study for the fall and am more than half-way done with the planning.

And, that's our week in review!