Wheew, September was a busy month. Not coming back from the beach until Labor Day (Monday) after being there a month probably didn't help. We had no time to adjust, much less unpack and prepare for the next season upon us....school.
Anyhow, we survived, and it was a crazy transition. Actually, the kids did great. Mommy? Not quite as well. After spending the summer totally undecided (and me stressing over the decision), a week before school started we made the decision to send Journey to Portland Christian with Aspen. Our original plan had been to send her to our local public school for Kindergarten, then send her to PCS with Aspen in 1st grade. Basically to save money on tuition for a year since we are in the midst of saving for building our house. I started looking at our fall schedule, and realized that I would spend most of my days driving from one school to another.
I also started realizing that as much as I will miss Journey during the day, I would really love to have the focused time with Teague and Willow. It's only 2 years until Willow will be off to school. Sad!
Journey is doing amazing in Kindergarten. She loves it, and has made a lot of friends. At first, it sounded like mostly boys, and older girls in Aspen's class. Helps to have an older brother at school :) A few quick stories that I know I'll forget unless I write them down.
- One day Journey came home talking about how Aspen kept telling her to go play with 'her own friends'. She was saying it in such a way that I knew that she had been bugging him on purpose on the playground. When I asked Aspen about what happened, with some irritation, he said, "Yes! Journey came and found me at recess. I gave her a hug and a little kiss, but she just wouldn't go away! She just kept following me around, bugging me and my friends! I told her to go play with her own friends, but she just kept following me around..." Journey had this little smile on her face all the time he was retelling the story. Funny girl, she knew just what she was doing!
- The other day Journey's teacher walked her to the car when I was picking them up. Just making conversation, I asked how she was doing. She's super sweet, and after saying good, she said, well, she sure does spend a lot of time talking to Syrus! Umm, yes, I hear a lot about him at home too, I told her, lol Apparently, Syrus' mom actually came in the other day asking if 'Journey' is a girl or a boy? Because he sure does spend a lot of time talking about this 'Journey'! haha
She sure is boy crazy. Even at 2 years old, she would work to get their attention. So as of right now, she is convinced that she is going to marry Syrus :) Also, for the first couple weeks of school I only heard about Journey playing with older girls at recess...Emory, Effa, Gwynnie and her friends, etc. While it's nice of them to play with her, it was also kind of concerning me. It's not going to take long for it to be annoying for 8 year old girls to be followed around by a 5 year old girl. I tried to warn her gently, that they may get annoyed by her always wanting to play and following them around, and tried to encourage her to try working on friendships with the girls in her class. It seemed to fall on deaf ears. It wasn't long until what I feared, happened. Her feelings were hurt, but not as bad as I was expecting. Now I hear about her playing with friends in her class. She really likes to be chased by the boys or pretends to be stuck/hurt to get their attention. Oh, Journey....
Aspen is now in 3rd grade. He is in a class of 15. There are two 3rd grades so he has some friends in his class from last year and some new ones. He is doing really great as well. A couple weeks into school, he admitted that he liked having his sister at school with him. She helps elevate his status with the girls because they all think she's cute. There have been more than one story of him confronting "mean boys" in her class. She knows he has her back. Love that :)
Being home with just Willow and Teague has been a lot of fun for me. Its been fun to see what Willow likes to do. She has always done what Journey has done, so it's interesting to see what she likes to do when Journey isn't around.
Basically, Willow loves to cook, do dishes, and help me clean. Our normal schedule is that we get home from dropping the older kids off at school at 8:30am. We make breakfast for Teague, and sometimes for ourselves. Around 9am, I nurse Teague and put him down for a nap. She has to keep herself busy while I'm doing this because he is so distracted otherwise. Most of the time she will play quietly in her room or wait outside of Teague's room until I am finished. She generally sticks with me while I clean up the kitchen, do the dishes, and work on laundry or other cooking projects like granola and granola bars. Some days we have "tea time" at the table with milk and a treat like a granola bar.
Other things I've learned about her are that she loves to have fresh flowers in the house. This has been an absolutely beautiful September. Probably the best one I can remember. I've been trying to take advantage of the beautiful weather as much as possible while it's here, and we have been walking to the coffee shop (Songbird) a lot and then to the park once Teague wakes from his nap. He loves to be outside
Other highlights:
Fishing.... There was still a lot of fishing trips for Mark. Great for him, and getting harder for me. I'm so done with it by the end of the summer!
Getting back into the swing of our normal life with date nights and girls nights :) SO needed!
Surprise.....taxes are due 9/15, not 10/15 like you thought! Yay...panic...
Tyler and Amy's beautiful wedding. The girls and Lilly were the flower girls
GAPS diet.... first Teague, then Mark
Surprise.....dental hygiene license needs to be renewed by 9/30 with 24 hours of CE....and you have 0 done as of 9/24.....yaya... I am a procrastinator.
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