"Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied." -Douglas Adams
Things have been humming along pretty well. The kids’ schedules are coming together (scouts, sports, etc) and I’m adapting well to being out of the house 2-4 hours a day at college. After my classes, I’ve been running a few quick errands before heading home. It seems I’m now spreading errands out [...]
So yesterday my biggest worry about going back to college happened.
Kelly came home sick from school. (Only she really wasn’t sick but I’ll go into that later.)
Nowadays professors have strict rules about cell phone usage during class and for a good reason. In one of my first day classes, I watched a girl [...]
Ah, the quiet…
The reason Zach’s not in the picture with the other kids is that now as a middle schooler, he’s up and out the door about a half an hour before the elementary school kids. Which means I’m up and out of bed a half an hour before usual…
And as if today being [...]
School Supplies for 2009
144 pencils (sharpened)
8 pink erasers
2 boxes of 24 count crayons
10 glue sticks
2 bottles of 4oz glue
4 pairs of scissors
3 small supply boxes
1 long supply box
6 boxes of 8 count washable markers
3 water color paint sets
3 boxes of colored pencils
12 black dry erase markers
4 packages of 4 count dry erase markers
1 dry erase [...]