The girls have been keeping a journal this summer. We started that project as a way for them to “write down their summer memories”, but really it’s just a “ploy to buy me more quiet time”.
I quite enjoyed Laina’s most recent entry about swim lessons:
“Today was a bad day but I did good going under water and then I started to cry bad because I do not want to go under the water.”
Beneath it, this drawing:
Clearly things are going well.