Back to school...almost
We go to an open house at school tonight so the kids can meet their new teachers, put their supplies into their cubbyholes or lockers and see some friends they haven't seen all summer. School starts for real on Wednesday. I have to say I have actually enjoyed the "time off" this summer, the first in a long time where we didn't have the children in day care so I could just get up and go in the morning and the only person I had to worry about getting out the door was me. That is now coming to an end and it will be back to motating (if not motivating) three cranky people up, dressed and out the door every morning starting at 6:40. At the same time I am happy to see them going back to school, and I think they are happy to be going back, if only because it's something different than being stuck together in the same house for the last few months.
In preparation Les took them swimming at her mom's this afternoon - one of the last weekday swims they'll get to do until next summer. Meanwhile, my first day back at work after vacation has sorta dragged along. Man, eight hours is a long time! :o)
5 comments:
Jim,
Lucky.
My children's (subsidized) day camp ended and there's two weeks to cover until school starts here - Sept. 2.
That means two weeks of daycare paid for out-of-pocket well in excess of most car payments.
I hate the Metro D.C. area.
-Sam
Sam,
I hear you - this was the first summer in a long time where we didn't have to pay day care and it was a Good Thing.
Hopefully over time you might be able to return to the West. That's my goal, but family is going to hold it up for at least a decade or more. But that's OK, the Rockies aren't going anywhere. :o)
I'm south of Sam but school also starts Sept 2.
Yeah when I got back from vacation, work was much worse than before... I knew it would be that way though.
Sam - were you from "the West"? Or is that just Jim trying to pull you out that way? I couldn't imagine moving out that way, even though I did interview at a company in CA a few years back, I think our families would have been seriously offended :) That and we would have probably gone broke spending $$ getting back out east to visit family....
ccjjharmon,
Yes, I'm from the West I guess.
Born near Huntsville, Alabama and spent the 1960s growing up with rockets before the parents moved me to Dallas, Texas.
From there it was various points around Texas then later Colorado, Wyoming and Idaho as a journalist before living in Harrison, Ark. for a bit until early 2005 and the move here.
Jim's post on losing weight is ironic in that it's also my goal and I want to climb Mt. Baldy in Ketchum, Idaho next summer and revisit Cody, Wyoming.
-Sam.
Chris,
When I say "the West", I DON'T mean "the Coast". I am talking about the Rocky Mountain West - CO, NM, WY, MT, ID, UT, even NV. God's own country. Once you try it, you'll never want to live anywhere else!
Sam,
CO is changing a lot and there are only a few places there I'd care to even live at any more (and I ain't naming any of them!) WY has a lot of appeal to me, actually, as does MT and ID.
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