New Schedules for All

Well, another grandma week has come and gone so we are on our own again as a foursome here. We were treated to great meals, help with organizing, fun stories for Gram and an extra lap for Mo. Gram started 1st grade and I started another year of teaching (my 23rd!)

Gram's school is a block away from mine so we walk together in the mornings (which I'll be able to do about half the time) and I can get him in the afternoon and bring him by school to visit the girls there.

It's almost midnight now and Beth and I are each up trying to convince Mo to sleep. I chaperoned a dance and came home expecting to find everyone asleep and Gram was the only one lucky enough to be snoozing.

Gram and I are off to Yankee Stadium tomorrow!

more soon...

Catching Up

I'll start again with Mo picture and a comparable Gram picture It's crazy to me how much they look alike at this stage.

I started work again this past Monday but, although with the way this summer unfolded, the main difference is that I am leaving the house every morning instead of writing emails and making phone calls routinely. Mo's sleeping is starting to stabilize a bit. Unfortunately, stable means waking up every three hours or so at night. Beth told me to sleep in our guest room Monday night, so I got the first uninterrupted night of sleep I've had since my mom left. She slept with Mo one night while we passed out and slept until the morning.

Summer appears to have ended here, we've had morning temperatures in the 50s a couple of times this week. I hope we have a long fall instead of marching right into a winter like we did last year. In 2008 it snowed before Halloween and snowed off and on until the middle of April. We don't need another season like that. Gram got a postcard from his first grade teacher in the mail yesterday. We are in countdown mode now until he starts elementary school.