Living On Vacation

Summer is Here …

and it’s official but not just according to the calendar. It’s summer according to Working From Home (in the Summer) with kids!

I’m fortunate, that I Work From Home 12 months out of the year … so when one of my children isn’t feeling well .. I have no boss to ask for time off, when the notes come home from school that drivers are needed for a field trip .. I can help, when it’s time for a school party .. I can always volunteer and then of course when it’s a school holiday .. there is no need to schedule a day camp for my children or hire a sitter. 

It’s in the Summer months, though that I appreciate Working From Home the most. In the last week, my children — son is 11 and daughter is 8 — caught a Horn Toad out in the field as they were riding around in the Gator (basically a souped up golf cart) and a Salamander in our POOL! I just about freaked on this one .. their dad was paying them 50 cents to dive for leaves, I paid $5 for catching the Salamander!

YIKES!

And here’s the Horn Toad … now this I’m okay with but that Salamander is not my type of ‘pet’ at all.

Horn Toad

And here’s the real treat … both have been added as additions to our Courtyard Zoo. The Courtyard already was home to one dry land turtle, two pond turtles, a few coy (fish) and more lady bugs and frogs than we can count.

What once was a sanctuary for reading and relaxing might now be more of a place to keep me alert, with one eye on my book and one on the look-out for a critter and no doubt, I’ll be using the foot stool from now on — with my feet UP!

Pond Turtle Taking in Sun by the Edge of the Pond

Regardless how many ‘critters’ move in to make my Courtyard their home, though … I will always cherrish these days Working From Home with my children! The time is priceless!