Taking a REAL summer break!

Well, I decided last week that come this past Tuesday, June 23rd, we were officially taking a break from any and all school related activities (minus reading). Daddy is home for leave until the 4th of July and then back to training on the Mainland for special duty in Iraq. The girls and I want to spend as much time with him as possible.
For fun we have done a bunch of errands and chores so far, but we have watched a few family movies and plan to go to the beach some time, maybe a ride around the island, and we celebrate Ed's 30th birthday this weekend with a special trip to our favorite restaurant Farrell's. We go there for every birthday we have. It's become our tradition since we moved to Hawaii. The girls also made a store in our living room and Ed was invited to "Gabby's General Store's" Grand Opening! It was cute.
Gabby has been doing some reading to show her daddy how well she's doing. I don't count that as school work because we are trying to instill the love of reading for work and pleasure.
We will be officially starting school July 13th. I know it's early, but if don't do it soon, it will be hard to get back to it. Wish me luck in my continued lesson planning...