Welcome to the Simply Charlotte Mason podcast. I'm Sonia Schaefer.

Today, as we are recording this, we're getting close to summer break.

And so I wanted to talk with my friend and co-worker, Laura Pitney.

Hi.

Hi.

I wanted to talk with you about the best way to use summer break.

So we get our break, but still we don't enter fall,

feeling like we're playing catch up the whole time in a frenzy.

So let's talk about some big ideas of how to use summer break.

Well, I look forward to the summer break starting in maybe March.

Like I'm counting down those days.

So I feel like my mindset has always been, you know, to really spend time with the family,

time that is devoted to them versus all the things we have to do.

I also do consider it a catch-up time, meaning things in my house that maybe I didn't

have time to see about projects, things that need to happen that I would have had to have

picked, whether it was school day lessons or painting the hallway.

You know, so, you know, just things that I really wanted to get done that I chose to delay until

summer. So I do consider it part of a catch-up time, not just on house things, but also even

like habits, things that I really started to notice

with my children and myself that we needed to put a little extra time into.

So I try to have purposeful things that we're going to work on and do, but it's not

formal lessons or anything like that.

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