Blackberries!

It is that time of year. The time when M turns himself black with blackberries.  Our own blackberries were done before 4th of July, but now we've got some from our CSA.  M & Big E go with me every week to pick up veggies just to get the blackberries.  M will even tell the other kids that the "blackberries aren't any good" simply so that he gets a few more.  He eats them the first day or so then decides that I need to turn them into blackberry jam which he then eats with a spoon.  Here is M super excited about having a black tongue from the blackberries.  He was upset when it started to fade, so he ate more jam.

Not a lot has been happening here though.  We are starting to have restrictions re-instated so that's been interesting.   

School has been ramping up. We are on to the next great adventure of homeschooling.  The bigs picked the homeschool curriculum last spring after we tried a couple during the school shut down.  Now we are fully on board with the program and ready for the group to meet the end of August.  As it is the end of July that doesn't seem so far away all of a sudden.  Schools here just announced that 1st quarter will be mainly done online so the kids are happy with their decision.  Chris is both excited and a bit scared, but that's to be expected with any new adventure like this.  Hopefully we can find some poor soul to help us with piano.