more of the same

i made some cards with my stamp collection.

we are finally starting to feel summer creep in to our schedules. it has this freedom about it that no other season has. i feel that i had this ridiculous epiphany the other day. our weekends are still quite busy for a few weeks and there isn't a lot we can do to change those commitments now. BUT, i can change our commitments during the week to compensate. for years now we have been a part of the library reading program and attended that each week, and we always do swimming lessons for someone (this is eislee's year to start). i realized that those things create too much of a commitment during the week. if we need freedom somewhere, that is where we need to take it. SO, the reading program and the swimming lessons... well... we will jump in with those in august perhaps. when everything starts to slow down. i am so happy watching that white space open up on my calendar. it's not where i had planned for it to be, but it still feels like freedom.