School has started and summer is over!

I love and hate this time of year. I love fall and it is just around the corner. I hate that we don't have more days to play. I love that the house is quiet when I come in. I hate that we have to get up so early. I love that we have a daily schedule. I hate that we have to go to bed so early!

Jeff started his job at the Jr High. I miss him terribly! I know. Wierd, huh? But we have been on our own schedule now for almost 8 years. We worked together as much as we could. We didn't get as much done sometimes because I was driving and he was giving me bad directions! (just kidding, Jeff!)

We talked about everything: church, politics, our neighborhood, our church callings, our kids, our extended families, our job, friends, money, the future, the past, our kids, our house, friends, money...

Last week I was by myself and actually was looking forward to that. But I was so blurry brained that I couldn't keep anything straight. (I even forgot TWICE to give papers to the secretary when I met her. Duh.)

I even went to the Jr High on Wednesday and ate SCHOOL LUNCH so I could visit with Jeff for an hour! Good grief.

This week will be better, right? Right.

I was reminded of the first day of my sophomore year when I asked Lori how Taiters was doing without Linx to play with. She said Tait was having a ball and kind of liked having the house to herself! She and Lincoln are only a year apart and have been the best of friends. I remembered when Alan started kindergarten way back when...

Alan and Crystl are only a year apart, too. They were also best friends. The bus pulled up and we all got on except Crystl and Alan. Mom was trying to get Alan off the porch to the bus but he wasn't budging. He had his arms wrapped around the porch poles and was hanging on for dear life. Crystl was wrapped around him and Mom was crying. (She always hated us to go off to school and even tried to home school us once so she could be with us all day.)

Anyway, I got back off the bus to help Mom. Alan started crying and then Crystl started. Then I started. I finally pulled Alan off and Mom took Crystl. Alan and I went to the bus and he got to sit in the back with me and all the big kids.

Poor babies. Poor Mom and poor me. We (Mom and I) still get teary-eyed when we talk about that day.

Anyway, a new season has started and it will be memorable. Meg is in her second year of college, Maddie is a Sr and in her last year of High School, and Hunter is in his last year at Elementary School!

Looking forward to fall weather...

Yup!

"Hillary Clinton says it takes a village to raise a child. I've seen the village and I don't want it raising my child." - unknown

Can I get one ticket to...Asia?

I love this! MacGuyver can fix anything! Too bad this salon is in Asia somewhere. Unless they style your hair to LOOK like MacGuyver! (then, never mind on that ticket!)

Huh?

So, Meg and I were just in Walmart. We were in the checkout line and this guy next line over was holding one of those fishy bags with the twist tie. Except he wasn't buying a cute little fish. He had a big, ugly eel that kept jumping straight up like it was trying to get out of the bag through the twist tie.

Anyway, a woman in front of him turns around to see look at this eel. She was asking him about it and then shook her head and said, "People just keep coming up with new things."

Eh?