Summer!

If I post today, my sisters can't say I haven't posted in a whole month, can they? I'll tell them it's only been 29 days. :) Warning, though. This post is rambly. Each paragraph is about a new and unrelated topic.
Right now it is summer and I love it! I like staying up late-ish playing a game because we don't have to get up early anyway. I like not having to do schoolwork. I like playing soccer with our homeschool group on Wednesday evenings. I like the competition, but also that since we pick teams each week, the competition only lasts that evening. We don't end up with rivalries, since we might end up on the other players' team next week. I like that we know everyone on both teams. I played on a town team one year, and while that was fun, I like this better. The best advantage homeschool soccer has over organized team soccer, I have discovered, is that we don't line up, shake hands, and say, "Good game" to the other team at the end. It always seemed to me (being a somewhat independent homeschooler) that adults were imposing on us their ideas of good will and friendliness. Which is one reason I am glad I've never been to public school. But now I'm rambling. :)
I'm reading Anne of Green Gables right now. I don't know how many times I've read it, but it is really a good book.
I am looking forward to 3 weeks from now! I am planning to go to a Christian youth camp along with some of my friends. The camp starts on a Friday night and goes until the Monday morning on the holiday weekend. It should be fun, at least I'm hoping it will be. :)
On Sunday it is my parents' 18th anniversary. 18 years ago they were very young and none of us were even thought of. And now we are a big, noisy, rowdy family. I love you, Dad and Mom!
Sisters are amazing. My sisters know alot about me. They are my best friends. We can tease each other and bug each other and tell each other our deep dark secrets. One amazing thing about sisters is they are always around and I for one love having my best friends with me. Who wouldn't love having people around to stay up late playing a game with and then stay up even later laughing over a story about A Mento that Got Swallowed Whole in a Store?
My brothers are great, too. Warren has been working like crazy lately, helping with the addition. Brent does not like to have anything to do with tools and dirt. He'd rather read. Gavin and I have almost daily arguments while we are drying the lunch dishes as to whether such work is girls' work or not. (I say not. Boys should be able to clean up after themselves, right? And we older girls also know how to paint, use a hammer, drill, saw, etc...) And as for Thomas and Nadia, they are best friends and when one of them is sad or hurt, they will usually run to hug and comfort each other.
How is your summer going?
Justine