Back to School

Brady and Avery headed back to school over a week ago. Avery's teacher's name is Mrs. Krug and she has quite a small class this year (12 girls and 7 boys) compared to previous years. They build a new elementary school in Geneva and so the school size and class sizes at Western Avenue Elementary have been cut in half. She has lots of friends in her class and is already preparing to do a 'book talk' the day after Labor Day weekend.

Brady is adjusting well to middle school. He gets to sleep in later and catches the bus a block from our house at 8:10am (Avery's still up early and walking to school by 7:40am). The first few days of 6th grade were kind of stressful with learning all the new teachers and finding classes in a new school. He has 3 lockers to keep track of - one for books, one for his violin and one for P.E.

Nora does not start her preschool until this Wednesday, 9/9. She will go on Monday, Wed, Thursday and Friday from 9-noon. Scott took her last week to meet her teachers, Mrs. Bloom and Mrs. Gift, and they had fun doing a scavenger hunt around her classroom.

It was raining on the first 3 days of school this year, so we did our traditional back to school pics inside:

I have a very light schedule for September because I backed out of a client/project that was scheduled to start in mid-August in Oak Brook. The client changed the travel requirements and it just wasn't the right fit for our family. I'm still facilitating several Change Leadership workshops for PepsiAmericas through October 6th and am hoping to find a new consulting gig by mid-October when we return from our Disney trip. Managing 3 kids at different schools, with different schedules, lots of papers and homework, and driving 6th graders to school when they miss the bus, has felt like a part-time job to me!

We are enjoying some extra summer-like days this weekend and Nora is tugging on me right now to go to the pool party at Eagle Brook! I'll post some pics of Nora's first day at preschool later this week.