Welcome to Glenside Elementary: 1st day of Kindergarten, 1st day of 3rd Grade...

Bailey and Calvin started school this week. They start in Sept. here instead of August b/c the schools don't have a/c so they wait till it cools off a little... but it's still been 90 degrees here. Calvin says kindergarten is too babyish. And Bailey is happy to be in the same class as Mary Grace, a little girl she met this summer. I must have 10000 school papers to sign and fill out! What a joy!

I am busily taking care of a long back list of projects, like our bathroom plumbing that has been leakin into our ceiling and so redoing the bathroom while the plumbers are here anyway. Yesterday I picked out a new vanity and maybe I'll start painting next week.
We have an ongoing landscaping project in our backyard, leveling and replanting grass. Larry sold his HUGE desk and that has helped me to rearrange our house furniture and get my piano studio set up so I can start teaching next week. Our van has been having brake trouble so it has been in the shop for two days. Good news is the brakes are okay but it's time for the 90, 000 mile tune up so we spent the money on that instead of brakes.

I found a GOODWILL store (finally) and am very stoked about that. The few thrift stores around my town were pretty sad after coming from such a goldmine of a Goodwill that we had in FL. I found a Goodwill here about 20 minutes from my house and we took the kids shopping there and SCORED finding lots of nice looking, brand name clothes! I got Bailey about 25 new items, and at the check out counter the clerk told me the kids items were 50% off that week! So instead of paying $2.50 an item, I got it all for $1.25 a piece! Happy day for us!

Bailey starts gym up again this afternoon after a long break from it. Calvin has begged me to have a class of his own too, so I have relented...although this gym only teaches boys up to age 5, they made an exception for Cal b/c he really needs the coordination practice.