The most wonderful time of the year!

Well school has started and aside from a few tears the second day from Matthew, it's going great! For the first time in months I'm not getting peppered with scalding then icy water from the kids using every faucet in the house while I'm in the shower!



The breakdown...

Nathan is in high school. 9th grade

Gabriel in middle school. 8th grade

Darrian and Michael at the intermediate school. 5th grade (and in the same home room)!

Crystal is in 2nd grade

Matthew is in 1st grade



Four different schools, two different buses, and this year...instead of 1 instrument we've got one on guitar, one violin, two clarinets and two recorders, one piano. (The two little ones haven't started an instrument yet, and Darrian wanted to try cello, but I couldn't figure out how he'd get it to and from school on the bus...so he decided to try clarinet)....I should not that for now I'm counting one of my nieces as my own, and she's on violin. Nathan gave it up for now, and she really wanted to try...she's my 3rd fifth grader, but she is in a different home room, although she's on the same bus...



I need a personal assistant to keep track of all the schedules, but controlled chaos seems to be the norm with us so a little confusion isn't a bad thing. So they're busy learning and I'm catching up on laundry! Usually I mourn the beginning of the school year, this year I anticipated it joyfully...my kids are growing to quickly, and I'm so happy to have 5 days a week with much structured direction to keep them busy and me from going crazy!