My goodness blog readers, please pardon the interruption here. It's the second week of classes, but the level of chaos still distinctly feels like it's just been one long day of students, meetings and madness. Consider this a "getting you up to speed" post.
Well, Parker started his first day of preschool last week. He is quite enamored with his teachers, classmates and the new toys they have. In fact, he laments that he's only there from 8:15am-2:45pm, which by the way, I thought was quite a long day for him. When I go to pick him up, he assures me that I must have better things to do and requests that I kindly come back and pick him up when it's dark. So thoughtful of the little booger.
He's also still sleeping through the night with sweet Nona for company. We do have our nights (like last night) where he has an accident and wakes up cold, wet and upset, but thankfully those are few and far between. It's made a world of difference to my own sleep patterns, but also to our now non-stressful night time routine. We read a story, give hugs and kisses, I hog tie Nona to the bed and we all fall happily asleep in no time at all. God bless us everyone for easy bedtimes!
Let me also apologize for the lack of new recipes on here. I've hunkered down into survivalist mode, which pretty much means just making the old standbys. New recipes should pick back up again in a week or two when I no longer have a zillion meetings a week that are sapping all of my mental reserves.
I've been super consistent with my running workouts and am happily breathing easier during that first wretched mile. Of course, it helps that the weather has been glorious here! Please don't throw anything at me Florida folks, but I have all of the windows open and I'm wearing a sweater over my tank top because I got chilly...at 1pm! It's moments like these where I just look out my window and stare at all of the trees swaying in the wind completely content in the moment. As far as I'm concerned, summer is long gone (and good riddance). I even sent Parker to school in a long-sleeved Halloween t-shirt.
In fact, I think that we'll decorate for Halloween in the next couple of weeks. I've decided to go over the top for all of the holidays this year and to decorate super early for everything. I've already informed the Irishman that we're putting up a tree and hanging lights the day after Thanksgiving. The holiday season is way too short not to enjoy every single day of it.
In honor of the first day of September, I'll be re-posting some of my favorite fall recipes for the rest of this week to get us all in the mood for the best season of all. Think of it as a way of increasing your anticipation for that first truly cool day.
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