August!

Another month in the record books...

Its been probably the longest week of my life so far and I still have 6 1/2 days to go! I have not been this sad in a long long time and I havent felt this lonely in years. I cannot believe how slow life is when Brian is away.
The week has been full of cleaning and trying to "stay on top of things". The kids have been miserably couped up in the house because we have had rain every single day since Brian left..which makes perfect sense really. What makes no sense is why my body waited until he left to get sick. I have been sick with a sinus infection since monday afternoon! One day!!! I am still sick and I may be a *slight* bit better today than I was on tuesday...but not much.
Being sick didn't stop me from renting a rug doctor to steam clean my whole house on tuesday and wednesday though. My carpets look a thousand times better! (my old steam cleaner broke a few months ago) The dog has me nuts and is the reason I have been up since 6am on a saturday morning sick when I should be sleeping like my kids!

On a happy note, yesterday was OPEN HOUSE! I cannot believe my little man is starting kindergarten in less than 2 days now! crazy!! His teacher's name is Ms. Stark. She is super sweet and very young and pretty and Christopher is already very comfortable with her and he was playing with his friends already in class while I filled out paperwork yesterday. He is so ready for school on Monday and I know he will do great because he is so excited! No tears from him I am sure! :) He loves his class and his school and is super ready for Monday! I was sad doing it alone but it was good. I signed up for room mom and a room volunteer (room mom is a coveted position that usually goes to someone the teacher knows, not just an everyday shmoe like yours truly), I also signed up for the PTA and bought Christopher his shirt and a cute red towel with an emroidered lion that says LES under it. (liberty elementary school) He is very excited for the fact that they are the Liberty Lions and he was happy to put my cute cicle magnet on the back of my car showing that we indeed are Lions in this house. :)

Today I am taking the kids to the mall, and to the Dolly Madison for some snacks. Then this afternoon its haircut time. Tonight we will label all his stuff and tomorrow we will go to the store and let him pick healthy snacks for afternoon snack time and lunch stuff and drinks. :) I am still in awe that my baby is heading off to Kindergarten...it blows my mind. I am sure I will have lots of my own tears, but I will try to wait til I am alone before letting them flow. I have a lot to do and I guess now that Laci is finally up I should get to it all.

Hope you all have a fabulous start to this last month of summer!
Robin