Well life continues on, with it’s ups and downs, and sometimes I feel as if it’s just a straight road ahead with no good or bad, but just monotony. In any case, it continues on, so we have the good things to look forward to, and the bad things to get through. It’s about all a person can do I suppose.

The girls started school last week, and the excitement holds for them. They started out in 4th and 3rd grade, but the principal and teachers talked to me about moving them each back a grade, as I had told them when I registared them that I did not know at what skill levels they were working at. In any case they both could have done the work of 3rd and 4th grade, but it would have been hard for them, so the teachers and principal thought that it would be beneficial for them to move back a grade in order to settle in with easier work, and I agree that it was probably a wise decision. I want my kids to like school, and learning, and if everything is extremely hard than it takes the love of learning away, so I’m okay with this. The girls were a bit disappointed in the beginning but have been settling in well, and are as excited as ever every morning to be going to school. Behavior has not been an issue at all with either of them, of which I am very happy and proud of them. They are still settling into the school routine though and sometimes forget that they are supposed to bring papers home or put their library books in a basket, but I know that in another few weeks all will be well.

It seems these weeks that I have been running the road constantly. Going here and there, doing this and that, but I think things are starting to slow down. We went to Kansas City earlier in the week to get the girls new glasses (thank Dad for helping with that), tomorrow I’m planning a trip to Topeka to go to Sam’s Club and Walmart. Next week Meg has an appointment on Monday after school and it’s possible that will be going to Kansas City again, but I rather think that will be the next week.

Things here have their ups and downs. Living with/staying with other people is always hard as we all have our own ways of doing things. We survive though.

Dad is planning on taking a week off in September and I’m very excited about this, as I do love spending time with him, and plans are to work with the horse a lot that week, which is always fun. We’ve done a lot of talking these past weeks while I’ve been here, and it certainly reminded me why I love him so much and that I’ve really missed our close relationship.

In other news, I wrecked my car a few weeks ago. I didn’t really total it, but damaged it enough that it was better for me to send it to a junk yard, and start looking for another car. I can’t even say how it happened really, other than I didn’t see the person in front of me stop to make a turn, and so rear-ended them. No one was hurt which is always a blessing. I do miss my car though, as I really loved that car, but it was only a car, and can be replaced.

Hmm, what else to talk about….Nothing that I can really think of for the moment, so I think I’m going to sign off for now.