Burn Baby, Burn!: Back to school!

Our Deepest Fear

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness,
that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually who are we not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

- Marianne Williamson

Friday, August 20, 2010

Back to school!

Gotta love 'Couch Art' - Thanks Griff!

We survived the first week of school. Barely.

Why barely?

Because the evening of the first day of school, Zac tries to break his wrist - which landed us in the ER, and made for a very, very late night.

The second day of school went very well, until Zac broke his brand new splint, and landed us back in the ER TWICE!!! Long story short, we are using a brace, and I am keeping my mouth shut and my fingers crossed.

My Kindergartener:

My 2nd Grader:

My 5th Grader:

The Whole Crew: (still can't believe I have a Jr!)

The house is so oddly quiet during the day now. Weird. Declan is still playing and destroying things, being mean to the dog, and trying to catch the cats, so I don't think the change has affected her that much. I think the girls miss her more than she misses them.

She finds things to keep her entertained during their absence!

Funny how once your kids go back to school a gallon of milk lasts almost 3 days instead of 7 hours! And things mysteriously stay where I put them during the day, too! Crazy! One of those 'unexplained' things I guess.

We had our PTO open house last night, decided our float themes, and made the beginning plans for the construction. I'm looking forward to the parade this year. Declan is big enough to enjoy the parade this year! Not looking forward to getting 5 kids to 5 float buildings in the week before, but we'll survive, we always do!

Oh. Wait.

I have another driver in the house.

w00t!

I take back what I said 6 sentences ago. (did I count right?) Sebastian can be in charge of getting himself and Zachary to their proper places. Good deal. Thank you, my newly licensed 16 y.o driver! Yay!

He'll be the cool new driver for the 8th graders to admire, and Zac gets to be the cool kid that gets dropped off by his older brother in an awesome car. Win/win/(win for mom, too) situation all the way around!

So...here's to a terrific school year, and hopefully the obstacles of this week will be the only rough spot we have to face. (hoping, hoping, hoping, hoping.....) LOL!