Six Word Saturday (8/17/13)

One Week of School is Done

The potluck with my Catholic friends went great and they loved the pie.  They have a certain order to those meetings:  eat and chat with each other and then do a five decade rosary.  I feel so comfortable around those people and it's very calming.

My daughter had been wanting to get her ear holes stretched (!!) all summer, but Monday she said she'd rather just have a second hole in each ear instead so we went to the mall to have that done.  We also stopped at Chik-Fil-A.

 

My kids started school Wednesday.  On the one hand, I was really happy to start getting the house to myself all day again, but on the other hand I was very nervous that they wouldn't like school or wouldn't find friends, etc.  I spent a bit of time at counseling talking about it.  I feel helpless because I can't protect them.  I feel scared because I don't want them to have the same experience with school that I had.  When I picked them up after school, they were both very happy, especially my daughter who was excited that her new math teacher actually seemed like he was going to help her this year.  

I had put a pot of water on for spaghetti for dinner and my husband came home and said I looked tired.  He turned off the stove and took everyone to Wendy's!  That was pretty cool.

I don't know if it was lack of sleep or the fact he had to carry around 50 lbs. of school supplies Wednesday, but my son stayed home Thursday complaining of stomach pain and he rested all day.  I knew it was legit because my son never misses school on purpose!  Hopefully next week they can get into the routine.