Gearing Up

By June I was quite ready for a break, and boy did we get one!  During the last few weeks of July I was dreaming of getting back to our normal kidschool routine, and we're (finally) almost there!  We needed to get through company and the move first.  Now I need want to have my home in a certain state of order to calm my obsessive compulsive nature.  It's almost there.  I'm aiming to begin normal life again by the end of next week.  You might say it's my deadline to finish unpacking.  If I'm feeling really good I might even have a few kidschool days sooner. 

I'm excited.  Super excited.  Why?  Because it means peace and harmony will return to this frazzled momma.  I'm excited to start school with Alex this year.  He's ready to be part of kidschool and I'm ready to give this little guy the attention he's been needing these last few weeks.  Somehow I just know that this is going to calm his mischievous tendencies.  I can't wait to sit down and do activities with him.  I'm excited to explore things with Logan and Annie.  We don't need 'learning to read' time on our schedule this year, so I think I'll try to have more hands on learning in that time slot. 

I'm excited to have library books again.  We're keeping most of our books packed up until we buy another house, so we've already gone to our new library.  The kids were in heaven.  It took Logan an hour to choose five books to bring home because he kept getting side tracked by reading the books he thought looked interesting.  Then I had to drag the kids out of there when it was time to go.  Now that we have library books again, we're also having quiet time again.  Hooray!  (Alex is also taking a daily nap again.  Double hooray!)  I'm reading an amazing book, The Hiding Place.  I can't believe I haven't read it before!  It's definitely a healing book.  Today I submitted a request for the Book It! program and Annie is super excited that she's old enough finally.  This year is going to be good.  It's going to be real good.