The New Routine

Well, the kids are all back in school now. I must say it is off to a great start :) We have a good schedule in place an everyone has adapted to it better than expected.

The boys get out of school at 3:30 every Monday through Thursday. So on Monday and Wednesdays, I start my workday at 6am and leave at 3pm to go pick them up. Chris does the same thing on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I can't say how wonderful this has been.

It's so awesome to pick them up ourselves and bring them home where Gretyl has just gotten home herself. I actually get to talk to them about their days on the trip home and have snack and talk some more. Then there is still time to make dinner and have it ready so we can all eat together as a family by 6ish.

Lunches are made as we clean up the dinner mess and the boys are usually asleep by 8:30. I told Gretyl she doesn't have a bedtime this year and she has been going to bed around 9:30 on her own! Last year her bedtime was 10pm and she rarely made it to bed before 10:30. Of course she didn't have to get up at 6am every morning last year...

Chris and I are usually in bed by 10pm or earlier ourselves, too (It's actually past my bedtime right now!). Unfortunately, our beautiful world will change some after Thanksgiving. Neither of our bosses are thrilled with us leaving at 3pm two days each week. This is supposed to be a temporary measure until we find adequate care for after school. I'm sort of just hoping Thanksgiving comes and goes and no one says anything and we continue as is.

Gretyl says she loves highschool. She says that they treat them more like adults and give them more freedoms and privileges. She was going to go the first home football game last friday with some friends and then walk back to the house. Then it rained, so she played with her two new friends instead: Leonardo Davinci & Victor Paquito. Her pet rats!!!!!!!

I have to admit, I will never touch them, but they are pretty amazing and a teensy weensy bit cute. Especially the hairless one. But I won't go into much about them. She told me she was going to blog about them and put on some pictures. I'm sure that will be right after she cleans her room (hopefully you are recognizing the sarcasm here). She will be joining the swim team this October. She has been taking lessons privately for a year or so. I think it will be a great thing for her and won't look too bad on the ol college applications either.

Well I should write more, there is still so much to catch up on. But I can hear my pillow upstairs calling out to me!