As I write this, kids are sleeping with the knowledge that Mom is waking them up at 8 am to start thinking about school. School starts Wednesday, and both Ane and Tad will need to be waking up earlier than that, but it’s a start.  Actually, Tad’s bus driver called and we must be the […]

This week has been nuts. We have visited (in no particular order) Tad’s new middle school, his previous elementary school, Ane’s middle school, and Rerun’s new elementary school in the space of two days.  With planned visits TODAY to Tad’s new middle school and Rerun’s new elementary school. I might catch my breath at some […]

We are gearing up for the first day of school next week… which included the middle school (gotta get used to saying that, instead of “junior high”) photo days.  Ane was willing to watch the little boys for me, so I could take Tad to his photo day without an entourage. He was more than […]

This face just about broke my heart. Tad came off the bus with tears in his eyes, and then they spilled over.  It was hard to look him in the face.  I posted this picture on Facebook, and almost all his teachers  (whom I had connected with in the last 24 hours on there) left […]