{First Day Back}

Last Tuesday was the first day of school.

Fourth Grade for K.

Second Grade for E.

And First Grade for me.

The boys looked good in the morning in their uniforms.

We had a good morning considering we have to leave by 7 am now and we get up at 615. Only E is a morning person around here.

A few pictures of back at school with their friends.

And E only had one mini-meltdown and one crying bit during class. Improvement I would say from last year.

It was a good day but we are still sad summer is over!

{sudoku school style}

So are you seeing a pattern here of what we have been doing these last few weeks....

and here's another school related post...

So I was asked to "pretty up" the upper grammar scholar's schedule. Which means put on the school logo add some color....very easy.

Until I tried doing it and discovered big problems....like the high school scholars eating with the kindergartners.

Chad and I studied the schedule and figured out we had to redo it.

So after about 4 hours of work this is what the office whiteboard looked like.

Chad was proud of it and wanted me to show everyone in the blog world so here it is!

He says it was like a big game of sudoku...all I know is that it gave me a headache.

{Summer School}

For the last two weeks of summer we have spent a lot of time at our school working on my classroom and the rest of the school. The boys have spent their fair share of time there and have painted, cleaned, moved furniture....all kinds of things.

The last time we were all their as a family K. got to cut out stars for me for my Class responsibilities chart (nice way of saying job chart huh?)


So here is on of my helpers being his helpful self!

{Summer Work}

So besides all the work Chad does for work, he has also gotten to spend a lot of time at our little school working. He did tile, ceilings, walls, painting...all different things.

Then he got to come home to me thinking I need a bookshelf for school and that he could build it.

And being the loving husband he is he built it for me.

I love it. Now each scholar has his own cubby for notebooks that stay at school, abacus, and white boards. We will add the book they are reading to the cubby and other things that stay at school year around.

Now the other teachers want one too....but I know they won't be as lucky as me!

{Friday FIll in}

I though this would be a fun thing to do today since I can't find the cord to upload my pictures to the blog right now and I am too tired to go hunt it down!

And...here we go!

1. When will not be stressed?

2. The Time travelrs wife was the last good book I read .

3. Everything has its beauty but dirty dishes.

4. Hot dogs is what I had for dinner.

5. I'd like your patient attitude.

6. The beach is where I want to be right now.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to sleep, tomorrow my plans include laundry shopping, school stuff, home depot, haircuts and Sunday, I want to rest!

{168 months}

yep....it is our anniversary today!

Chad told me it sounds longer if we celebrate 168 months instead of 14 years. Sometimes he is a little weird....but as my niece tells me often "boys ARE weird" so we'll just stick with that.

What did we do today. Well a babysitter was hired....to babysit while I worked at school and Chad was at meetings with clients....aren't we romantic! Than Chad brought the boys out to school for the open house in which he talked with all the teachers and carried in a flat of water for me.....
romance=boys carrying heavy stuff.

Dinner and a movie? We ordered dinner in so no one HAD to cook or really clean and both of us are too tired to even think about a movie....you see Chad worked at my school last night from 4 pm to 2:30 am laying tile and putting in ceiling so we could be more ready for open house. I stayed up until 1 am getting open house stuff ready and got up for the first time in months at 630 am to go to work.

Either we are getting old and tired or we work too hard. I like to think we work too hard.

But even if we are both working on computers and trying to get more work done we know the truth....it has been a short wonderful fun 168 months !

{it's august......already}

I don't know how it happened but the summer flew by.

Now we start school in less than 2 weeks....

I miss summer already.