Well, it has been incredibly hectic, with lots of chaos. But today was Rosh Hashanah and schools were closed, and it was an incredibly beautiful day. Life is good.
JT loves middle school. He thinks it's wonderful. He even loves walking home 1 1/2 miles. The only slight glitch was during the first week when he would not do his homework because he was too busy reading or sneaking and playing video games. But then we set up a schedule and an agreement that there are NO video games until the homework is done, and so far (a week) it's worked very well. (knock on wood). He now has reread all the Harry Potter books for I think the 4th time, so he will have to find some other reading material. (He's waiting for the sequel to a number of books to be published -- I used to hate that -- it's part of why I gave up reading science fiction and fantasy books, by the time they published the sequel I had forgotten most of the details in the previous book).
PB seems to be adjusting ok to 1st grade. It's harder to be sure with him. Most of the time he seems to like it. But there's still a sense of "but...." The school itself it going through such upheaval and angst and the adults there are clearly stressed but being very professional with the kids, but you know that the kids have to have some sense of things being tense because kids usually are so good at picking up on the tone of things even if they don't understand what's really going on or why.
My jobs are crazy crazy crazy. Teaching a new course at University is such a huge amount of work - and you know me, I always get anxious about it! And the high school social work stuff is just lots of intensity at the moment... I don't know if it's the phase of the moon or karma or what! It's just stressing me out.
So a day with no work and just my kids and hanging out and taking care of life business (banking, groceries, and going to the book store) is blissful.
Happy New Year!!!
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