And school begins…

Posted by Kat in Julie, Life, London, Rachel, School

Rachel is in 5th, Julie is in 2nd and London is in Kindergarten!!!!!!

The Longest Summer

Posted by Kat in Life, School, Summer

I’ve been a Mom for 11 years now. 2 summers ago I spent a lot of it with Rachel at Children’s Hospital Boston and / or at a variety of doctors. Last summer me and the kids took a month long road trip visiting a pile of amazing places and doing other road trips. This summer we have spent a lot of it at home having days at the pool but not really doing a lot but having simply fun.

Simple fun apparently sucks! This has been the most difficult summer of my mothering career and it is a summer I plan to avenge. I know some of the difficulty surrounds Batten Disease and behavioral issues that trickle down to my other 3 children but that can only take so much blame.

School goes back in 3 weeks. All 4 of my children will be in school full-time! Rachel is going into 5th grade, Julie is going into 2nd (with the best teacher ever), London will be starting Kindergarten and Boston will be at Montessori Preschool. I have promised them their own individual “back to school” shopping trips for some new clothes / shoes and supplies. They are so excited for their turn to go shopping with “just Mommy” as opposed to dragging everyone along.

So the Back-To-School Countdown begins!

Julie rides the Fire Truck

Posted by Kat in Julie, School

Julie won the first grade Read a Thon prize of riding the fire truck to school! Here is Julie riding in the truck!

Pennies for Haiti

Posted by Kat in School

One of the classes in the kid’s school is organizing the penny collection. I better dig under the couch cushions to fill our sad little bag. LOL

Blank

Posted by Kat in Boston, John, Julie, Kat, Life, London, Rachel, School, Thanksgiving

Can’t think of anything to write about tonight. I still have a horrible cold / upper respiratory infection that seems to be a “super cold.” I have been having lots of irrational thoughts about never leaving the house again and wearing a face mask to check the mail. Definitely the virus “talking.” Julie thinks I need to wash my hands more.

The kids had microwaved hot dogs with ketchup for dinner. Kind of proves that I feel terrible.

Both Julie and London brought home “manilla turkeys” to decorate and I doubt that our dining room carpet will ever recover from all of the glitter it soaked up tonight. Julie’s turkey is so thick with glitter that I think it needs a custom piece of plywood just to support the weight.

Rachel had a good entrance and exit to school today. We brought Holly (our dog) to school with us and that most certainly lifted her mood and made the transition easier. I think I better bake some cookies for them tomorrow. You can never have a mom who bakes too many cookies, right?

Thursday

Posted by Kat in Batten, Boston, Julie, Kat, Life, London, Rachel, School

Best day of the week!

We’ve had a small virus passing through our kidlets starting with Boston and London and yesterday moved to Julie and Rachel.  Fever, lethargy and all gone after a good night of sleep.  Rachel had a headache yesterday and then got a fever and went to bed before 6pm and still (at 715am) has gotten out of bed yet.  Julie fell asleep at 7pm with a newly acquired fever and has been up for at least an hour.   Now I am sitting here wondering if Rachel has had this virus for longer because of her disease?  I made chocolate chip cookies for the kiddos and a pot of tea to try and make her headache go away (caffeine) but she wouldn’t touch any of it.  London was thrilled for the cookies.

Holly is doing well.  Its still a learning experience having a dog.  Knowing how much to feed her and at what times, knowing when to take her to the bathroom.  Seriously like bringing a new baby home from the hospital.

Julie is excited for Mrs Buttkus, who I assure her, DOES NOT kiss butts.  I am sure that her new teacher has heard all of the butt and butt kissing jokes before and has a way to get them to stop.  LOL  I am going to probably cry my eyes out putting her on the bus (which I am not sure I want to do but am going to do anyways because I have to let go a little bit in order to be the best possible Mom to all 4 children).

London is so excited to start preschool.  He is going half days and will have the same preschool teacher that Julie had for the last 2 years,  He is going to LOVE it!

Boston who flipped out for several days about a Buzz Lightyear toy which I finally bought him, has since played with Buzz in the sandbox and then “washed” him when I wasn’t looking.  Guess which newly acquired Buzz Lightyear toy doesn’t work anymore?  So annoyed.  Hopefully we’ll get some sound back because he is, as you guessed, is flipping out again.  I should laugh more about this or he’ll drive me nuts all on his 2-year-old-cuteness own.

Woke up to a fantastically chilly morning today.  Perfect way to start the best day of the week.  Now to get the trash out…

The results are in on Yoga

Posted by Kat in Fitness, Julie, School

I wasn’t really sure what to expect at a Yoga class but I did expect that it would be more cardio. There were a lot of funny positions that I wasn’t used to holding and with the breathing and concentration I definitely felt like I accomplished something. I slept like a baby that night and I am going to go again (definitely!). After the Yoga class I will definitely say that I felt relaxed and better able to deal with life. May I even go so far as to say I felt “centered?”

I went to Yoga with Mary: a woman who lives a few blocks over (well actually, it started out by my dragging her but she ended up really liking Yoga)…. Mary and I met because her job is to drive the “Preschool Bus” to and from school everyday and her awesomeness was so obvious that I begged her to do something with me outside of “the bus.”

I think we are also going to sign up for adult “Hip Hop” classes when the next session starts.