So long summer!

You would think that after sending the kids back to school, I'd just have all kinds of time to blog, right? I don't know what has happened to me these past 4 weeks, but I have been having a bit of bloggers block and also keeping very busy gearing up for our fall schedule.

First things first: The kids are both adjusting well and really enjoying the new school year. The only hiccup has been that Pressley took a couple of weeks to get used to going to school every day. Being used to going two days a week, a five day week has apparently been hard for her to get adjusted to. One day, during the second week of school when I was asking her to get herself dressed for school, she said (in typical exaggerated Pressley fashion) "A-GAIN??" When I said yes - and I thought you loved school, she replied, "I do, but not EVERY DAY!!" She seems to be past that now and we're rockin' right along. She is doing very well. She is perfecting writing her letters, learning a new song each week about the letter of the week, counting to ten in French, and doing "homework" every Thursday night (which consists of cutting pictures out of magazines to correspond to the letter of the week and pasting them into a "book" that she has decorated at school). She is growing up so fast.

Evan has had a rather seamless adjustment to school this year. He is in a first grade class with a handful of kids from his kindergarten class as well as one good friend from the neighborhood. I was a bit concerned that he and the neighborhood friend would be trouble together, but so far, we've gotten all "greens" for behavior, so we're pleased that it hasn't been a problem. Evan is becoming quite the little reader, but his favorite subject is math. He came home with a math assignment the other night to do on the computer and was very excited to tell his GranNan and Poppy all about it.

And, why were GranNan and Poppy there helping him with his homework, you might ask? Because I have started back with my seasonal job at GSU College of Law. I am offering career advice to law students three days a week, and one of those days, I need to stay a little later, so mom and dad helped out with the kids the first week until I could get a sitter in place. I always enjoy my time at GSU. It is nice to be back in the working world for a little bit, but I am always anxious to get back home to be with my kids (and back into my flip-flops!) :o)

Fall is shaping up to be very busy around our house. We've got Pressley taking gymnastics, ballet and playing her first (and maybe last) season of soccer. Her soccer practices start Thursday of this week, so I'm anxious to see how that goes.... Evan is playing soccer in a new league this season and is continuing with his karate classes one day a week after school. I'm teaching pre-school music on Wednesday nights at church, so we have at least one activity scheduled every day of the week. I have a weekly calendar that hangs on the side of my fridge with a separate column for each family member just to keep me organized with who has to take a leotards and tap shoes or a gi and library books on what day. And I'm still not sure I'm on top of things.

I say all that to say that even though this post contains no pictures, there should be plenty of photo-taking opportunities in the coming weeks and I promise to be better about updating the blog. I had no intention of being absent for this long, but it was as if I blinked and August was gone.