"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
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 [...]
Whew! I’ve survived the first two days of college! I have to admit that Monday morning I was a big ball of nerves. I seriously had to break it down into itty bitty pieces: I’m driving to the university. I’m finding a parking space. I’m walking to the first class. [...]
I was really hoping to ‘take today off’ from running around like a crazy person (trying to use up those precious kid-free hours during the school day) and just sew* but I think I still need to spend at least an hour today running around like a crazy person.
Today’s errand list includes trips to the [...]
So the kids’ first day of school went well. The second day went alright too even though one of the twins has already ‘misplaced’ her lunchbox. That is one of my least favorite parenting tasks, finding lost things that should have been put away but weren’t and now no one knows where they [...]
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 [...]