School started yesterday for my kids which officially marks the end of summer for us. It was both a busy summer and a lazy summer. There were sports, sleeping in, the teen got her driver's license and Andy and I did our usual work-from-home-in-the-summer dance. We tried hard to get our paycheck work done with time every day to hang out with those kids of ours. We really like them as people; they're smart and they're funny. Each stage is entertaining and enlightening and we soak it up.

We didn't go on a big vacation this summer, but we went camping up north. This photo pretty much sums up our summer and our goofy family.

How was your summer?