Hi all!



Phew...is it Winter Vacation yet? I'm exhausted! We survived our first full week of school- barely. By Friday all four of us were grumpy and tired :) We actually didn't do much outside of school and work but just getting back into our routine has been hard on all of us. I am really enjoying my new school. I have a lot of challenging kids this year, not so much behavioral but a lot of my student's are very low income, come from single parent homes or have a parent deployed right now. I also have a student with Spina Bifada (sp?) and another with autism. Throw in 3 more with IEP's for all academic areas and 7 others in speech and I have a very interesting room! All very nice kids but I am WORN out by the end of the day! Dave has been going non-stop at work...on the 7th day of school he even had to expel two students- Really? Taylor is loving Kindergarten but has been coming home absolutely exhausted. We used to have to fight with her about going to bed and now she is asleep by 7:15. She has a new best friend, Katrina, who lives just a block away from us. She went to Katrina's house for a play date today and hasn't stopped talking about her since! Oh, to be 5 again. Maddie is doing well but I have to say that she has had a rough couple of weeks. I think that Dave and I didn't do a very good job of adjusting her to being by herself at daycare without Taylor and throw in the fact that Taylor has been getting lots of attention and we have a girl who has been testing the limits...temper tantrums, a lot of "I'm not going to do it's" and even a cutting of the bangs with her scissors. Despite all that, she is loving her new preschool and loves, loves, loves going to Kaylin and Macie's house every day. She made an all about me poster this week at school and in it she said that she wanted to be a mom when she grows up. So cute!



We had a busy weekend. My sister came for a visit with Miss Emilie- Wow! She is growing like crazy and is as cute as can be. We went to the farmer's market and to the park and then hung out at our house for the rest of the day. We spent Sunday cleaning the house, getting groceries, planning for next week, decorating for fall and going to the end of the year Boston Harbor BBQ.



Have a great week everyone!