It's Friday night......which means we survived the first week of school-boo yah! Dan and the girlies are gone on a father-daughter camp out, so me and the boys are just hanging around the old homestead being boring. We did take advantage of being Olivia-less and caught a showing of Harry Potter tonight. Duncan has been really wanting to see it again. While we were at the theater, he spotted a movie poster for the Hunger Games and got all kinds of excited. I didn't know he had read any of those books, but apparently he read the first one at school, and one of his teachers is a big fan. He was pretty fired up about that poster. He might turn out to be as movie-obsessed as his old man.
Pretty soon I am going to have to start thinking about the fact that in 10 days, Alisa is leaving the country for 9 months. It's coming- I can see it coming, I just don't know what to do about it. I can't really imagine not seeing her for that long. I CAN imagine driving myself crazy worrying about her. How is she supposed to survive a continent and an ocean away from her mommy? How am I supposed to survive? Really, how am I supposed to get any sleep at all when she is that far away? What is she thinking anyway? She doesn't know a soul over there! She doesn't speak French! These are the questions and thoughts that zoom into my brain when I let it wander into that territory. So it's better to just veer it in the opposite direction for now. I'll have plenty of time to sit up nights worrying in only a few short weeks. Why start now? My one consolation is that MY mother is going to be up at night worrying right along with me.
Today Olivia asked me why we don't make cars out of the same stuff that trampolines are made of because that way, the cars would just bounce off each other and not crash. Okay, so her physics are a little flawed. But you've got to admire her reasoning and problem solving skills on that one!
Mitch is, I think, settling into the routine of college life. He is at least recovering from that initial shock of the sheer weight of class load that crashes onto your shoulders and makes you stagger those first few days. He doesn't have as much reading as he first thought he did, but adjusting to studying again, after a few years off, is going to take some time. I hope he hangs in there. I think he will.
Will got his school pictures taken today. He was a little bummed that I only ordered the deluxe picture package, rather than the super supreme primo package. He felt he was better than deluxe. I told him to be happy he was more than basic. He is such a funny kid. He is funnier than he even knows.
Audrey turned in her papers for ballroom today. Ballroom is kind of a big deal. A certain number of sixth graders get to go to school early two mornings a week to take ballroom dance lessons. Wow, you might be asking yourself, ballroom dancing and early mornings? Where is the appeal in that? That's what I am asking, but around here, it's the Thing to do, so by golly, we are hoping she gets to do it.
I think that's an update on all of them. Did I leave anybody out? Well there's me. And Dan. But we are boring. We work. We take kids places. We eat. We sleep. That's pretty much it. And that's okay for now.
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