Yes, it has been over a month since my last, so fun, blog entry! We had a wonderful time and I was grateful to say hello to the rest of my family again but sadly I came home with either food poisoning from Chipotle at the airport or the stomach flu and was a wreck after we got home. Whatever it was turned into something else that kept me tired for weeks. I often fell asleep putting the children to bed and felt like I just couldn’t move at full speed. Last week (and after several appointments with my favorite chiropractor for the first time in 4 years) my limp is completely gone from my sprained this summer and I feel like I’m working at full power again. Such a relief. Crossing my fingers I can stay well for a while. Poor Hubby had to pull a lot of extra weight while having to do a ton of time critical things at work while I was out of town and sick. And our renters moved out in the middle of all that too because they purchased their first house. Thank you for being a wonderful, hot husband!
Since Walt Disney World, there was plenty of volleyball for K (who doesn't like me taking pictures) and flag football for D, and Girl Scouts for M and N. We also had lots of play dates and got to play in the leaves before Halloween. In big news, the Waldorf school has moved D to 4th grade and he is so much happier now! He fits with that class better physically, socially, and academically. I feel sorry for him having to go through missing the first 6 weeks of 4th grade and having to play catch up but the truth is, those summer birthdays are tricky! The teachers and I agree he is more mature in many ways than his birthday would suggest. Here’s to hoping the rest of 4th grade will be as great as the last month has been or even better.
K.C. and I have begun trading off play dates after kindergarten so that we can go to the temple during the week. It was great to with my dad — we haven’t been there since last May when my mom babysat for me. I look forward to going more frequently and am glad I can help K.C. go more often too.
Halloween time was fun as usual. K was a slice of pizza, N was Toothless from “How to Train Your Dragon,” M was Little Red Riding Hood and D was the Big Bad Werewolf. We enjoyed hanging out with church friends for the annual Trunk or Treat even though it felt weird to not have K there. She was having a blast at the CU volleyball game with her friend, A. What an opportunity! Hubby took D to the C’s Halloween party and got to watch that fun craziness for the first time. I was so tired I stayed home and watched tv with the girls and later when some of the dads he had been talking to saw me trick or treating they were so kind and said they were glad to see I was feeling better.
I love that the Waldorf school has an early release on Halloween and the day off November 1st. I was able to go to the public school’s parade and N’s kindergarten party and my mom watched the children so that I could decorate K’s classroom for her party and man a station for 5th grade. Hard to believe this was K’s 6th and final school Halloween party. Makes middle seem so much closer when we think about her doing things for the last time! That night all 4 children had friends to go trick or treating with. N and R didn’t go far but liked sitting around the fire pit handing out candy. M went around with her classmate M and his dad and D went around with our neighbor P and his dad until he joined with his former baseball team and their dads literally running from house to house and coming home with 12 pounds of candy. This year was K’s first year going around a neighborhood without us. She went around her best friend’s neighborhood with C and H. She had said she felt like she was getting too old for it and wasn’t going to go if she didn’t have people her age to go with. Slow down on growing up, girl! Enjoy Halloween while you can!
The next day when our 5th grader headed to school, My dad and I took D, M and N down to the DMNS (since K says she hates it there). We spent hours in the new Mind Bender Mansion! We thought so hard I got a headache! It was a fun way to spend the day off and a good beginning to a new month.
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