Fact #1: Papa Murphy’s got rid of their classic cheese bread. This might not be news to you because apparently it happened a year or more ago. But for me? Who hasn't had Papa Murphy's for quite a while? This is new and devastating information.
I don't understand.
Fact#2: My kids didn’t read at all this summer. I had such good intentions. I was going to reward them for reading. I was going to read to them. We were going to start the year on benchmark (my kids are behind in reading).
And yet...
Fact #3: Nicky is supposed to head to Puerto Rico tomorrow, but Tropical Storm Erin is a-brewing. I’m interested to see if his travel is affected. I’m not at all worried about it in terms of Nicky’s safety (should I be?)
Update: the plane made it to Puerto Rico, so as long as Nicky was on it, he’s there now! (He does not currently have a phone. He will be issued one in PR now that he’s there. We are excited to hear from him, but we have no idea when that will be. In the meantime, I continue to not feel worried about him. Curious… but not worried).
Fact #4: A few things I don’t like about the school year:
Friend drama
Managing children’s anxiety and daily breakdowns
Keeping up on school communication (especially during years when I have three schools to keep track of)
School dances
Drop off and pick up traffic
Not being able to go to work at 5 a.m.
Fact #5: A few things I like about the school year:
Built-in friend encounters, reading, and exercise
Having a schedule and a routine and not so much downtime
A bit more alone time for me - even just a little time in the car between drop offs and pick ups is so nice
Being able to start and finish a small task without interruptions every two minutes
Going to the store without my kids
After school activities that keep the kids busy
The weather starts to cool down (but gosh darn it, not for a while still - it was so hot today!)
Fewer messes around the house (in theory)
Fact #6: First day photos:
Fact #7: Last weekend Scotty and I went camping all by ourselves! I don’t think we’ve ever been camping, just the two of us. It was amazing. All we did was play games, take naps, eat food, and go back and forth from the outhouse.
It was exactly what we needed.
This is the only photo I took:
Fact #8: I don’t understand why people don’t take their photos out of their picture frames before donating them to the thrift store.
Fact #9: I fell asleep while writing this blog post… two nights in a row
Fact #10: How I celebrated the first day of school:
Scrubbed my shower
Shampooed the living room couch
Went to the thrift store (bought some books and a shirt for Zoe)
Picked up my prescription eye drops (that don’t help)
Went to the car wash
Met Christie at Cafe Rio for lunch and talked for 2.5 hours. Almost died on a shifty Cafe Rio toilet seat.
It was a good day, but I’m already sick of doing 3 drop offs and 3 pickups each day. I don’t really like to carpool though because my kids go early and stay after school a lot for extracurriculars, so I will stay a lone wolf driving two and from three schools until Daisy gets her license.
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