Boating and Back to School

The kids wanted to do some boating this week, but Brittney had to babysit for the neighbors on Tuesday and Courtney had to work on Wednesday, so we went both days to accommodate everyone. Such a hard life when you have to go boating twice a week to keep everyone happy.

Pineview:

I liked the way this pic of Curtis skiing came out...






Wow, who is that really white lady with her nose in a book? She's frightening.


Willard Bay:





Josh started back to school Monday. So far, so good. He's made so much progress reading over the summer. Some things just clicked into place for him. I hope he can keep up the momentum and really keep doing well this year. His brain is organized about like my teenage bedroom... it's all in there, but can he find it when he needs it? It's been interesting to watch and try to figure out what's going on in there.

I started back to work yesterday. This year is the first year where I have really felt like... hey... I've got it under control! It's going to be OK! I've got a few new ideas, I'm feeling semi-organized, I might make it. I, however, have enough experience now to realize that this feeling will last exactly until the bell rings for school to start. It's easy to feel like smooth sailing when it's just me. Once you add in 38 little turkeys who have varying degrees of antipathy toward anything resembling work, all bets are off. It feels good to get back into a schedule, though. If I have to.