I don’t know about you but for me it seemed like summer flew by. It feels like just last week it was Christmas and now Christmas is only four months away (sorry, getting off track, LOL). Time sure does fly by.
With summer coming to a close that means school is about to start. My oldest Sabreena is going into the 8th grade (wow, will get back to this later) and my middle child Shaun is starting 1st grade. School starts on Monday the 31st so to celebrate the end of the summer we are having a pizza party for the kids on our street. There are maybe 10-12 kids on our street and they play together almost daily. Shaun typically goes outside around 10am and comes it at dinner time with a short lunch break. Unfortunatly there are not as many teenagers so Sabreena was a little bored this summer. She went to the mall, movies and over to friends but not that often.
I would say the summer was pretty low key for the kids this year. For the past 2-3 years Sabreena has gone to Vegas to stay with a family friend for 2 weeks up to a month. She didn’t go to Vegas this year and to tell you the truth I have no idea why not. We did go to Ocean City, NJ at the end of July for a week long family vacation and we had a BLAST but it ended way to fast like they always do. All in all summer was good. The kids played and Melinda and I worked. Guess that is how it is suppose to be, LOL.
I know Melinda is glad that the kids are going back to school because she has to deal with them all day since she is home. I am sure with both of them going back to school the house will become a little more quiet until 3pm when they arrive home from school. I can now reclaim my napping spot on the couch since they are back to school, that is AWESOME!!! So now on to a new journey called set bed time and wake up time, daily homework and soccer practice and games. Now that I think about it I guess I was sort of on summer vacation in a way too since I didn’t have to worry about the homework and everything associated with school.
The kids enjoy school which is a good thing but I can’t believe that Sabreena is 13 and in the 8th grade and my baby boy is starting 1st grade. WOW. Blows my mind.
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