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We are in the midst of our second week of ballet camp.  Honey had her camp last week and Sister has hers this week.

We've had some extended family drama.

Ben came out on the promotion list for Lieutenant Colonel (LTC).  I'm very proud of him.  We were on pins and needles for whole week.  Note to HRC (Human Resources Command):  Please just publish the list.  Don't send out a notice that you'll be publishing the list the week before.  That's just downright mean.

I'm in the middle of tweaking our schooling.  I'm not quite sure what I want to do but ideas have been brewing and percolating in my brain for a few months now.  I want to do more but not too much and it needs to fit with my son's way of learning.  My girls tend to get the short end of the stick and I'm trying to remedy that.  Brother wants to learn Latin so I'm going to take that and run.  The others will follow along leisurely I'm sure.  I tend to be more unschooly, but I need to be more proactive in that vein.  I'm just rambling right now.  I hope to have a more concrete idea soon.

Organization is taking a big role in our lives right now.  Ben is leaving for Afghanistan in a few months and I really, really want to be in a good place organizationally.  Otherwise, the house will be awfully messy when he returns.  I hope this will give me a swift kick to get going.

July is a month full of family birthdays.  We have the big family July birthday party this Saturday.  Since we are all together and it will be at my photographer brother's place, he will be taking a big family portrait as well.  With everyone, that would be 18 people.  My family makes up 1/3 of that.  My brothers need to hurry up and start having babies (only the married ones, please).

There's more because my mind is always going a thousand miles a minute, but I need to get the kids gathered and leave for ballet camp.