So it begins...

Well, Ryan woke up this morning, all stuffed up and coughing like crazy... I'm hoping it's just an allergy thing, I know mine have been really bad and Brad's having trouble with his too.
Yesturday I worked all day as the Assistant to the Dr. I don't do that very often anymore, so it felt really good to refresh my skills, from 3-5 I had to be both the Assistant and the Receptionist, that is a challenge, I was exhausted by the end of the day! Today, I am off. I am supposed to go help JoAnn close her pool depending on how she is feeling. I need to get mine all clean so we can get that ready to close too. It's still really nice out, but everyone is so busy we just arent' using it.

Okay, So it takes me days to finish a post sometimes. I did go help JoAnn close her pool on Thursday, we were done before noon. Now I have to get ours cleaned up, it seems to want to turn into a lake, so I need to get some algicide today and make sure it's spotless before I put the winter chemicals in and then drain it down a little to cover it up. I prefer to do all the work now, to make sure it's easy to get going in the spring.

I took the boys to the fair Friday after they got home from school, they each played a game and won a stuffed animal. Then we wandered around looking at stuff, and got our junk food and left, we were home before 6pm. Then we had supper ( we didn't eat too much junk food, too expensive) Then Doug and Brad went to the Football game, I had Ryan in bed by 8pm and he was sound asleep by 8:10pm. He's still not feeling the greatest...

More soon....

Prayers

Please keep in your prayers, The Sessions family. They have lost thier son Mike on Saturday morning. Our thoughts and prayers are with them. They will have a private buriel of his ashes this week, and there will be a memorial service on Sunday at St. Peters. The family is very overwhelmed and it hasn't completly sunk in yet. There was a steady stream of cars over there today. I took them Chicken Lasagna and a cake. I used to wonder why people took food to a grieving family, until I lost my parents. It really does help, you sure don't feel like eatting, let alone cooking. If you read his obituary in the paper, he wrote it himself. His family will carry out his wishes. It's all so sad, my heart goes out to them.

Me and my "baby"

Bradley took a picture of me and Ryan, sorry about the glare from the flash!

Update on the first day of school

The boys had a great day! They were both talking a mile a minute when I got home from work. Brad LOVES school, as does Ryan. They both had a lot of fun! Ryan is already sound asleep and Bradley is still stalling.... When I finally get pictures developed from today I will post them. I should probably post a current picture from this spring/summer, I guess it's been awhile! Yikes!

I'll be praying for a healthy school year!!

First day of school

Well, I've just sent my baby off to school for the whole entire Looooong day of school. His first day of Kindergarten. I will admit, as soon as he rode away on the bus... I cried... I am really excited for him and he was really excited, but this morning, he got nervous about getting off the bus in the morning and finding his class. I took him everyday last year , because he didn't go to school until 11:30. When I woke him up this morning at 6:40am, he got out of bed, stood for a minute and then said, " I can't even stand" and climbed back into bed. We cuddled for a few minutes and then he got dressed, then came out for breakfast. He usually drinks warm choc milk in the morning and loafs in bed for awhile... he's done this for years. Today he sat at a table stareing at a bowl of Rice Krispies... He ate a few bites and said he was done. I fed him a few more bites, while he watched Brad inhale his breakfast, while telling Ryan it's a long time until lunch! (Brad I belive has a hollow leg or two) I took a bunch of pictures while he was still in bed , while he was getting dressed, while he was eating his few bites of breakfast and then of course getting ready to leave and then one getting on the bus. I got some good pictures of both the boys together. As I'm taking pictures of them waiting for the bus, Mady came over and I got pictures of her with the boys, it reminded me of the pictures from my first day of Kindergarten waiting for the bus with Amy... Anyway I'm still all weepy, but have gotton ironing done and will in a moment leave for town and then run errands then I'll get ready for work, so I will miss to boys getting off the bus today, I'll be at work. Mrs Sessions is helping me with the boys after school on Tuesday's and Wednesdays. They can get a snack here at home and use our bathroom, but then Ryan can play with Elijah after school while Brad does his homework... Brad is "babysitting" after school... Little does he know it's under the watchful eye of the neighbors, I love this neighborhood!
Guess I'd better get to my errands! Thursday will be my first day ALL day with no kids home and no work to go to.... how odd, guess I'll finish painting Brad's room! Still can't get over my lonely feeling, what am I going to do when Ryan goes off to college??