Last night I attended my third Writer’s Group meeting. It was an entirely pleasant experience and I came home invigorated and happy. I intend to repeat that experience next week even though I’ll actually be submitting something. So Yay!
In other news, Gleek came home from school and happily announced that she’d only been in time out once all day. I cheered for her accomplishment. And it is an accomplishment since she was sent to the Office several times during her first week of Kindergarten. I think that she wants things to go well as much as I do. She is trying hard.
Link’s first day went well. He already likes his teacher.
Kiki had to do her first homework assignment last night. She was prepared to get herself all worked up about it. I listened the the moaning and groaning long enough to help her hammer out an outline. Then I left her to do the assignment (or not) all by herself. With no audience to complain to, she just did her work without problems.
I came home from writers group last night to find all four kids fast asleep. I am the one that does bedtime every night, but I had to leave for writer’s group before any of the kids were down for the night. Howard managed it all without any major upsets. It was so nice to come home and not have to deal with bedtime. Although when I lay down in bed the Mommy Radar kept pinging me to tell me that I hadn’t put the kids to bed yet. Fortunately checking on the sleeping kids sufficed and I went to sleep.
This morning the kid did not jump out of bed happily, but once they got rolling everything went well. It is quite a bit more chaotic trying to get them all ready simultaneously instead of one at a time. But I’d much rather do one high-intensity hour than 2 and half medium intensity ones. Also one 5 minute drive is so much better than a two drives with a combined time of 25 minutes.
I’m sure that by this afternoon there will be new and exciting messes to manage, but for now all is well.