Back in School

Well the kids returned to school on Friday, August 6th. They go back so early here and to start on a Friday is really weird.

I went to back to school night at the high school as usual and it was packed this year. Normally there is like me and one other person on BTS night, but this year there has been major moral drama and the county superintendent resigned like a week before school started so everyone came out. By the time I left there I only had 10 minutes at Elyssa's school so I only met 2 teachers. Then I waited in line for 45 minutes to make sure she is on the right bus since we moved.

So far school is going well. This is the first time in Isaac's 13 years of school that I haven't gotten a phone call or email during his first week of school and we're on week 3 now! I'm so proud of him! He really seems to be buckling down and trying to do his best to get ready for college. We have had more and more colleges show interest in him, which is so exciting, but we both agree on his first choice Northwestern College in Iowa. Isaac is doing cross country this year to keep busy and is doing well. He had to quit last week because he didn't have a ride home anymore, but the coach called and asked him to come back. She told him they would find him a ride everyday so he has first meet tomorrow. Meanwhile we are studying for SAT's and ACT's again and trying to teach him to drive a stick so he can get his license. Never a dull moment!

Elyssa is liking school as an 8th grader, but has gotten 2 merit marks already this year. I think that is as many as she has gotten in her whole life. In her defense they are way too strict at school now. One was for talking and the other was for laughing in the hallway! Can you believe you can't talk in the hallway? Isaac would have been suspended by now with those kinds of rules. She is on the softball team and we are all not thrilled about that like we thought we would be. Gotta say I don't see eye to eye with the coach and he gives us no information and doesn't return my emails or phone calls. I had to get the schedule off the website after asking for it several times. One of the emails he didn't return was for directions to a game! Oh well, Elyssa is learning how difficult it is not to quit and to stick things out even when you don't get along with someone. Having said that, she gets along great with the girls on her team and enjoys wearing her uniform on game days.

Meanwhile I am struggling to keep it all together. The thought of Isaac going off to college makes me burst into tears every time. Don't get me wrong I want him to go, but I just can't imagine my life without him. In fact, its like I'm losing him already. With everything going on I hardly see him anymore. However, I'm doing my best to let him grow up and use this time to have more one on one time with Lys.

Til next time...........