Dressed For Success

This week is "Education Go Get It Week" at the girls' school. Today they were allowed to dress up for their future careers (I suppose this takes the place of not being able to wear costumes to school for Halloween). Kaylee was an artist and Ainsley went to school dressed as a teacher but came home calling herself an author. As of today her future is planned, so it seems that "Education Go Get It Week" has been a success. After college Ainsley is going to teach, then she's going to get married, and finally after children come along she's going to write children's books. Sounds like a great future to me!

 

Fall Has Arrived

As I walked through a sea of burnt orange at Walmart today I started thinking about how I love this time of year.  The end of summer blues have passed, and we're back into a routine.  It's crazy, it's busy, but we're happy.  The promise of cooler weather is just around the corner.  Weekends will now be full of adults walking around in their University of Texas gear and children running around in their soccer uniforms.  I'll be pulling out my Halloween decorations next week, and we'll be decorating our annual Halloween tree soon.  Cutout sugar cookies will be made, and I'll start including pumpkin in my baking.  Soup will soon be a dinner staple again, and I won't have to worry about turning my house into a giant oven (or sauna on humid days).  Fall has arrived.

All By Myself

Landon just left for his first day of preschool away from home.  I now have three and a half hours to do anything I want . . .

 

 

I think I'll go clean my kitchen.

Preschool

Landon is participating in a preschool group with some of his church friends this year. He was excited to start this past week. I taught first, so on Tuesday and Thursday I had six adorable preschoolers in my house. It was a lot of fun. We're using a curriculum called Funshine Express. All of the material is really cute. I think this is going to be a fabulous preschool year for Landon. Hopefully by the end of it we'll be able to decide if he's ready to start Kindergarten (our little July baby).  

Snaggletooth

Once there was a girl named Kaylee. Kaylee had a snaggletooth. Kaylee loved her snaggletooth. One night Kaylee's snaggletooth was hanging by a thread. Kaylee was sad. She wanted to keep her snaggletooth right where it was, but the snaggletooth was ready to come out. Kaylee cried; she would miss her snaggletooth. But, after much begging and bribing from her mom and dad she knew the snaggletooth needed to be pulled. With a quick little yank the snaggletooth was free. Kaylee liked her new look. She was happy.