August 25-29, 2011: Back to School-The First Three Days

     School started back this week with my sons in second and fourth grades.  It is amazing how time flies. I can’t believe they are getting so old already. They both had their annual sports physicals a few weeks ago, and my oldest (who is not yet ten) is currently 5 feet tall and 95 pounds. Wow! My youngest is just over 4 feet and around 50 pounds (and he’s not quite 8).  Although they are getting bigger physically, they remind me often that they are still little boys in many ways.  My oldest son always prefers I ride or walk him to a friend’s house, beach, or party he has been invited to even though everything here is close, and the kids his age go back and forth to school and other places by themselves all the time.  And my youngest is afraid to go upstairs by himself, even to the bathroom or to his room because he is “scared of ghosts.”  They are not grown up totally yet. J 

      It was good to get them back into the routine of school, and with that, life has officially sped up again.  I have spent the weekend ordering Halloween costumes and birthday party supplies as my babies big days are right before Halloween and a couple of weeks after. At least we get it all taken care of at the same time and before the next 2 big holidays of Thanksgiving and Christmas.  J  Other than time, life marches on as it usually does with no big news one way or the other.  I am working on more mobility with my arm, and all is well on the atoll, for now.  Thank God for that.  Hope you all have a good, uneventful upcoming week too!  Enjoy every quiet, relaxing moment while you can because you never know what life-changing event or character building challenge is around the next corner.  “Talk” to you again soon.