CrazedPhotoMom

Hello?  Is anyone out there?  Has anyone been reading?  Other than family, does ANYONE stop by here anymore?  If you stop by, leave me a comment!    I know I haven’t updated in forever but things have been a tad busy!

Everyone’s finally getting settled into a routine now that school has started.  I really didn’t think life could get any busier than having 3 young kids at home.  Boy was I mistaken!!  Now that all 3 kids are in school, it seems like I have even more to do!  I’ve been volunteering in Maddie’s classroom once a week and either this week or next, I’ll be heading into Lexi’s classroom as well.  And shortly after that, I’ll be in Nate’s class too!  That fills my days…well that and housework, laundry and errands. 

And now our nights are filling up as well.  The girls have been taking dance for almost a year.  We’ve been telling Nate during that time that we’d let him try karate here in town.  Finally a month or so ago, he started showing real interest and asking us about it.  We took him in for a free lesson and he loved it.  So now he’s going twice a week!  He seems to really enjoy it – and I sure hope so since we had to commit for a year!!  I was really shocked that they expect a 7 year old to commit for such a long period but Nate assured me that he wanted to do it.  So far, so good!  Here are a few more pics from his first night of class! 

Left Photo:  Lexi Left, Maddie right  Right Photo:  Maddie left, Lexi right

It’s hard to believe that we’ve gone from the left photo to the right photo in almost 6 years. 

Today we start a new chapter in our lives.  All three children are in school full-time as of today.  8:30am until 3pm.  Every.Single.Day.  Oh good Lord in heaven, I didn’t think it would EVER get here!!    But it has finally arrived.  Today the girls started Kindergarten.  A huge milestone here!!  And we are SO proud of the girls.  They marched right in like they owned the place this morning.  We weren’t sure how Maddie would since she’d voiced a day or two ago that she didn’t want to go to school, she wanted a different job.  LOL  But she was fine!!  Her teacher called tonight to let me know that she did wonderful today!! 

For me, today was just an odd day.  After I got back home and Joe headed to work, I was all alone.  All alone in my own dwelling for the first time in 7 years (for more than an hour).  I ran a couple of errands…ALONE.  Went to the grocery store…ALONE.  It was so weird.  I kept looking behind me to see if the girls were with me when of course they weren’t.  Lunch time…more weirdness.  No one but myself to fix lunch for.  I got to eat first…totally odd.  I’m usually sitting down to eat and the kids are finishing up.  The whole day was just weird.  I imagine it’ll take a week or two to get into a new routine…one that only includes me and the dogs.

And not to leave out Natey, he started school yesterday.  He has the same teacher this year that he had last year and that’s made a WORLD of difference for his transition this year.  Last year when he started school, he had a new teacher and a new aide and a new classroom.  LOTS of new things for him all at once.  He’d come home from school and spend an hour+ in his bedroom alone.  Yesterday?  Only 10 minutes.  I was SO glad to see that.  Today, he didn’t even need it. He was more interested in hearing about the girls’ first day.

So here are the rest of our first day photos starting with Natey’s first day yesterday!

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