Mara starts 1st Grade!!

Remember how I bawled my eyes out when she started Kindergarten?  Well, I kept my sh*t together this time! I started tearing up as we were driving her to school, but told myself to suck it up!  Even though she will be a bus rider, we decided to take her for the first day.  

When we got there we went to the cafeteria to show her how to work the lunch room for breakfast.  Every child at the school gets free lunch and free breakfast, so we decided we are going to take advantage of that!

I was glad Sean was home and was able to come with us to drop her off.  I think it made it easier for everyone!  I think we're going to have a hard time with Logan starting school though.  After being there for not even 2 minutes he was trying to talk Sean into leaving....he hates big crowds.  So, that'll be fun I'm sure.

Then we headed to the playground to wait for the bell.  They had fun playing together.  Can you believe I was the only parent taking pictures?!?  In Utah I swear everyone has their cameras out like they're the paparazzi or something.  Not at Mara's school.  I was getting funny looks from people.  Weird.

When the bell rang we showed her where to line up and off she went!

It was so crazy!  We have a 1st grader!!!  How/when did that happen?  She suddenly looks much older to me.

While Mara was having a blast at school (she told me so), Logan had a rough day.  About every 20 minutes he asked if it was time to pick Mara up from the bus yet.  When they reunited it was seriously the cutest moment ever.  They ran to each other and wrapped up in a huge hug.  Mara even picked Logan up off the ground.  It was so sweet.

Logan starts preschool next week.  That day cannot come soon enough-for him and for me.  He's bored out of his mind!  Poor dude.

Long time, no blog.

After an almost year long hiatus, A LOT has changed.  We live a long ways away now.  246.9 miles to be exact.  Hmm, that number doesn't sound nearly as far as it feels. We've lived in Idaho for about 8 months now.  I can't believe it's already been that long!  Sean got a promotion which meant leaving Utah.  It was bittersweet.  I've got oodles of family in Idaho, unfortunately not the part we live in (I have seen them a lot more since we've moved here though so that's fun!).

Sean's job has a lot of traveling involved.  So much so that I felt like he dropped us off in the middle of nowhere and left us!  It has gotten better though.  He doesn't travel as much as he was and we've settled in here more.  

I still don't have a single friend.  I don't know anyone beyond a head nod as we pass by in the parking lot.  The closest I get to adult interaction is emails to teachers about various things.  Methinks I'll be signing up for PTA or something.  Hopefully then I can meet someone!  I haven't felt this desperate for friends since Junior High School!  My mom says that if I'd go to church I'd meet people, but....well....that's not gonna happen.  See what I mean?  A LOT has changed.

That's probably too personal to share, but it's the truth.

I want to blog more often again.  So that's the plan!

Stay tuned.

So much has changed....again.

I just looked at my blog and started laughing.  The last blog was about how everything in our lives were changing.  What a joke!  Little did I know how much things were going to be even different shortly after.

I'm blogging today from our newest new home.  Good ol' Idaho.

I started crying all over again as I read about the guilt I felt moving Mara's schools.  I can't believe we did that to her again.  All in all she's been registered at 3 different kindergartens!!  Luckily she's only attended 2 different ones, because we transferred her records before she began the first one.  Of course, in usual Mara fashion she has handled it like a champ. She's cool like that.

Moving to Idaho was hard for me in some ways and easy in others.  The adventure that awaited us sounded amazing.  Just our little family all on our own for the first time.  I've always loved Idaho and visited it regularly growing up so it didn't seem scary at all.  The chance for Sean to grow in his company (at record speed might I add) was exciting.  He works so hard-he totally deserved this promotion.  Not to mention the pay raise sounded beautiful.  Is that shallow of me to admit?  Well, it's true.

I was apprehensive about it as well.  I was nervous about being all on our own for the first time ever (even though that's part of why I was so excited too).  Would I be an okay mom without all the extra help I'd been receiving since the kids were born?  I've always relied on our families for so much support and it wouldn't be there anymore. Plus, Idaho schools apparently stink.  They're ranked 48th in the nation.

So now we're here.  It's been....interesting/hard/fun/exciting etc.

We were told that Sean would need to travel 1-3 days out of every week, but that it would mostly be only 1 day a week.  Well, we've lived here for a month and he's been gone basically Monday-Friday every week.  He has even worked weekends out of town!

My days are pretty darn boring. The kids are dying to make friends.  We've moved in the winter before and we didn't meet anyone until the Spring when people start coming out of their houses again.  Plus, we don't go to church so that greatly limits our "social" interactions with others.  (That story is for another day...maybe).

Anyways, so much has changed in our lives.  I imagine they're going to keep changing.