Thursday, August 31, 2006
First day of Second Grade...
Waiting, waiting, waiting for the school van to arrive! Getting Doug to finish up his breakfast is usually an excercize in utter ENDURANCE. He is the SLOWEST eater on the face of the earth...particularly at breakfast time. Being on the Ritalin, he has no appetite at all...so breakfast time is always tedious. Usually, I am still trying to get him to finish up his breakfast when the school van arrives to pick him up. Not so THIS MORNING! He not only had all his breakfast eaten (chocolate milk, a wildberry toaster struedal and a cup of strawberry/banana yogurt), but, I even had time to soak down his shirt spot-cleaning the blue frosting from the streudal off it AND his shirt had time to completely DRY and I had time to read him a book and he had time to pace up and down the driveway five million times while we were still waiting on that van to arrive!
The weather is beautiful here this morning...nice and cool! If you were going to have a morning waiting around outside for the van, this was a good morning to pick! The girls slept in...just waking up as the van pulled into our drive. I have decided not to start homeschool with them until mid-September. I begin a two week (M-F) orientation at the VA hospital on September 5th....so, if we began school today, we would only have two days to do school before they had to take a two week break. Just seems best to start school late this year. After my orientation, I will just be working on Saturdays and maybe an occasional Sunday.
The van DID finally arrive (right on time, actually), as seen in the photo here! In Doug's backpack is a little brown paper lunch sack that his teacher had given each of the children the night of Open House, with the instructions that they were to fill it with items that were important to them...then tell the class about those items today. Doug placed a Batman figure, Superman figure, and the Mystic Force Power Ranger figure that he bought in Canada in his sack. He wanted to put one of his little Spiderman figures in there, too...but, alas, Spiderman has gone into hiding.
The only other new news on our front is that after a year or so of being a single car family, we got a second vehicle Monday night. It is a 2000 Ford Contour. We wanted something that would get better gas mileage than the van. Grant will be driving the Contour back and forth on his long daily commute to work...once I get it aired out/fabreezed out properly! (Previous owners evidently smoked quite a lot inside it.) Fabreeze does wonders, though! Neither Grant nor I would pick a red car....but, when it comes to car shopping, color is a minor detail. The only thing important to us is that it is RELIABLE and doesn't strain our budget...everything else is optional! (Grants' folks really LIKE the color of the car, though. They usually pick that sort of red for their cars. I guess I am more a gray/silver/or black person myself and Grant likes the more subdued colors best. I must say, though, that I would take red over WHITE any day of the week. Don't know why I am biased against white, but I just don't like white cars. (Grant likes white, though.))
¶ 8/31/2006 06:38:00 AM 
Waiting, waiting, waiting for the school van to arrive! Getting Doug to finish up his breakfast is usually an excercize in utter ENDURANCE. He is the SLOWEST eater on the face of the earth...particularly at breakfast time. Being on the Ritalin, he has no appetite at all...so breakfast time is always tedious. Usually, I am still trying to get him to finish up his breakfast when the school van arrives to pick him up. Not so THIS MORNING! He not only had all his breakfast eaten (chocolate milk, a wildberry toaster struedal and a cup of strawberry/banana yogurt), but, I even had time to soak down his shirt spot-cleaning the blue frosting from the streudal off it AND his shirt had time to completely DRY and I had time to read him a book and he had time to pace up and down the driveway five million times while we were still waiting on that van to arrive!
The weather is beautiful here this morning...nice and cool! If you were going to have a morning waiting around outside for the van, this was a good morning to pick! The girls slept in...just waking up as the van pulled into our drive. I have decided not to start homeschool with them until mid-September. I begin a two week (M-F) orientation at the VA hospital on September 5th....so, if we began school today, we would only have two days to do school before they had to take a two week break. Just seems best to start school late this year. After my orientation, I will just be working on Saturdays and maybe an occasional Sunday.
The van DID finally arrive (right on time, actually), as seen in the photo here! In Doug's backpack is a little brown paper lunch sack that his teacher had given each of the children the night of Open House, with the instructions that they were to fill it with items that were important to them...then tell the class about those items today. Doug placed a Batman figure, Superman figure, and the Mystic Force Power Ranger figure that he bought in Canada in his sack. He wanted to put one of his little Spiderman figures in there, too...but, alas, Spiderman has gone into hiding.
The only other new news on our front is that after a year or so of being a single car family, we got a second vehicle Monday night. It is a 2000 Ford Contour. We wanted something that would get better gas mileage than the van. Grant will be driving the Contour back and forth on his long daily commute to work...once I get it aired out/fabreezed out properly! (Previous owners evidently smoked quite a lot inside it.) Fabreeze does wonders, though! Neither Grant nor I would pick a red car....but, when it comes to car shopping, color is a minor detail. The only thing important to us is that it is RELIABLE and doesn't strain our budget...everything else is optional! (Grants' folks really LIKE the color of the car, though. They usually pick that sort of red for their cars. I guess I am more a gray/silver/or black person myself and Grant likes the more subdued colors best. I must say, though, that I would take red over WHITE any day of the week. Don't know why I am biased against white, but I just don't like white cars. (Grant likes white, though.))
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