Catching our breath...

Well tennis has ended, baseball has ended, the weather is cold/cool and it's getting darker earlier. All these things are helping me to feel like I can take minute and catch my breath from 2 months of going, going, going. Don't get me wrong, I have post baseball depression, and I really miss watching Jessica swing that racket and pound that tennis ball, but basketball is right around the corner so this down time is definitely momentary.

So in my catching up I am actually doing my housecleaning schedule this week

Yes, I have a schedule:

Monday: kitchen

Tuesday: bathrooms

Wednesday: laundry

Thursday: dust/vacuum/sweep

So since the maid hasn't shown up EVER, and I am pretty sure she won't exist for me til I have enough money to pay for college and since that little thing called the stock market is, well, struggling, all that may never happen, so I figured I better suck it up and get to cleaning. As you know today is Tuesday, I don't like Tuesdays in my cleaning schedule, loathe is a better word. Mondays I can handle, Love Wednesdays, Like Thursdays, but loathe Tuesdays. I was cleaning the bathroom today and was wondering if this thing really works.

Does anyone know? I wouldn't want to spend the money unless it could buy me a few Tuesdays between cleaning. Let me know if you have tried it.

I started to be concerned about something when I cleaned my shower, there is so much hair in my bathroom that either:

A. I am going bald (rogaine for women?)

or

B. This fella is secretly coming to my house and using my shower.

I am not ok with option A or B.

What have you been up to?

So it's certainly been awhile since I posted, over a month! So sad, I am sure I have lost all 3 of my readers! I am pulling my calendar out to help me remember what I have been up to.

Ran my 10k, surprised myself that I did it since I only gave myself 2 weeks to train for it

Father-in-law came for a visit while waiting for the electricity to come back on at his house in Houston.

Jessica has been taking tennis lessons, first lesson she beat the tar outta the tennis ball like she was hitting a line drive to center field, by the last lesson she was learning to take a little off the ball.

Joshua's has played lots of baseball games, the boys are having a good season.

Chris went to Atlanta for a conference. I was jealous.

I had 22 parent conferences in one week. Yikes.

We went camping on what was probably the best Texas weather weekend we will see all year.

Ok I feel that I was busier than that but that's all I can think of...

I will try to do a little better at this blogging thing.

today

Yep, that's me today, stuck inside because of rain...

Signs of Fall

It's still hot and sunny around these parts, but there are a few signs of Fall around here:

1. Fall baseball began today. LOVE IT! Love it even more when we win 9 to 1. I know I am a terrible sport. Joshua got to be the catcher today. He's about to throw down to 2nd in this picture. So fun to watch!

2. Chris is firmly planted on the couch, remote in hand flipping between college football games. Trying to watch the Aggies til he gets too disgusted and then promptly punishes them by changing the channels.

3. Jessica already trying to decide the biggest Fall question of them all: What am I going to be for Halloween?

4. Motivation to run sets in. I actually signed up for this race today: http://www.tourdesfleurs.com/ I thought this race was in mid-October and that I had plenty of time to build back up to 6.2 miles, oops it's in two weeks!! Can you "cram train"? I will let you know that answer to that on Sept. 20.

5. Life begins to settle into a routine, gone is the spontaneity of summer, here is the routine of Fall.

Gotta go run! Literally!!

First day pics

I thought I would be able to post a first day pic last Monday, but we got a new camera and it wasn't downloading on to blogger for me, something about a bmp vs. a jpeg. Whatever, Chris aka superman fixed it for me. It's fun to play the helpless female when it's convenient!

We all made it through our first week of school. Joshua had a great week and Jessica did too! I like my new class. My teacher friend across the hall said on Thursday, "Do you feel like you have already been in school for a month!!??" YES!! It was weird how you fall back into old habits so quickly that I didn't actually forget everything this summer!

He's ready, I am not

Joshua starts 5th grade tomorrow and in Wylie ISD that is a new campus, the intermediate campus.
Intermediate according to webster:
Main Entry:
1in·ter·me·di·ate
Pronunciation:
\ˌin-tər-ˈmē-dē-ət\

1 : being or occurring at the middle place, stage, or degree or between extremes

So he's off to the middle place between extremes. Sounds kinda scary and sounds about right. He's right in the middle of the two extremes, not a baby and not a man. He's so ready for a change. His last year in elementary school wasn't his favorite and I think if he had to go back there for another year he would be quite grumpy on this eve of the first day of school. Like I said, he's ready, I'm not. I will miss knowing that both my kids are in the same building with me, I will miss being the one that takes them to and from school, safely in my blue bus, I will miss being able to sneak peeks at both of them during the day. Chris and my dad both said just today that it's "good for him" I promptly replied, "I don't like you" since they weren't answering correctly. I know it's good for him, but that doesn't mean I won't miss him just a bit.

In fact teaching has not helped this part of me, all week I have thought about and prayed for all 22 goofy little faces I had last year hoping they all transition ok, knowing I am gonna miss them, even the ones that made me a bit crazy. I wish I could check in on all of them.

I haven't ever really been that great with change, however change and life are pretty synonymous so I know that I will have my moment and keep going and oh can you imagine the blog when Jess goes to intermediate or they go to junior high, high school, college, oh man I can't go there yet.

Thank goodness I still have my Jessica with me! If I tear up tomorrow she will do what she does best which is be sweet!

Check back tomorrow for 1st day of school pics.

It's time...

If I had music as the backdrop to my life then a few songs we would be hearing right now might be:

It Ends Tonight By the All American Rejects
Workin' for a livin' by Huey Lewis and the News
"If I Could Save Time in a bottle" by Jim Croce

or probably most appropriately it would be the music you hear when you know Darth Vadar is approaching...

Summer is OVER and work starts for me tomorrow. Big sigh! I love summer and will miss it dearly!

Top 10 things I will miss about summer:
1. vacations
2. sleeping in
3. reading books
4. laying around in our jammies til noon
5. being the "good guy" and getting to say yes to lots of fun stuff
6. actually still being awake when Leno comes on
7. no schedule
8. talking to my sister EVERY DAY
9. vacations
10. sleeping in.
Yes, I will miss those double so they made the list twice.


Top 10 favorite memories of summer:
1. Watching Chris jump 30 feet into the Colorado River
2. Playing in the pool (yes I actually got in) with Joshua and Jessica at S. Padre
3. Staying up late hanging at the Steidley's (We will still hang out, I just can't stay up as late)
4. Going to The Lake
5. Watching Joshua water ski (for a few seconds)
6. Going to the Astros vs. Rangers game with Chris
7. Watching the 4th of July fireworks with the family
8. Seeing my friend Laura if only for a brief time and in the grossest McDonalds we have ever been to.
9. Going with Jessica to mini-camp
10. Getting pro on Wii tennis. ha ha.

There's more but I will stop with ten.

Ok well I guess I should try to get some sleep tonight, it's gonna be an early morning.