Exhausted Already!

So school is started and we are being pushed into the routine, like it or not. Funny you never lose that 'back to school' feeling or that 'Sunday Night' feeling knowing school is the next day!  The weather also decided to turn, although beautiful weather, it is funny just those signs of Autumn coming, some leaves on the ground, nuts along the side walks and I don't mean people, but nuts from the trees and the sight of the yellow bus! and so we begin.

For Louie this is a jump, as he starts at a new school, (Middle School) and he is now at the same school as Isaac. It is a step and the start of him becoming a teen! We have two years and then that full horror will develop. But I am hopeful, his brother isn't too bad.........maybe we will be ok. But the first item on the agenda for being a pre teen like Louie is a mobile phone. So off we trot to the mall, to get Louie his first phone! He was very excited and by day one, he is a texting demon, telling me what bus he is on and when he arrives at school. (He must have heard my mind meld screams as I was waiting anxiously, wondering if he would text me, of course I hadn't asked him to. So much relief that he let me know and continued to for the week.)

The first day of school we were all nervous and up early! 6.00am for this house and they are out of the house by 6.55am to get the bus from the corner. Of course I hadn't read the instructions properly about the buses, that's two in the morning and two in the afternoon. So I didn't hear until the end of the day about how they waited a block too far for the bus at the old stop, luckily the driver saw them and collected them. Then how they didn't make the transfer because they had to go to the bus depo (Louie heaven!). Such fun stories and not a bit alarming to hear that the bus malfunctioned and had to be replaced!!!!!!

But all were returned safely to me at the end of the day and so the week unfolded. Now we slot in the dance classes (I am now counting 5 a week!) and horse-riding and soccer! Oh my, the fun of the schedule.

So by this weekend we were exhausted. But not before the plumber came........aka Damian. He has excelled himself and installed a new water heater. Ours having fully died and as our whole system in the basement makes grown men cry, he did it himself. The heating system also needs replacing, as Damian sorry The Plumber, tells me it is broken and he thinks we have 4-6 weeks to get that done too...............he won't do that as it is a conversion to gas from oil as well............oh the joy of home ownership. So far we don't have someone for that but The Plumber reliably tells me that he is on the scout for that.

Here are some snaps of all the above.

This would be the New Phone

6.45am and tying those laces. Notice the dark outside! yes the sun is not fully up at this time.......

The old pro. Unfazed.



Day One of Middle School and even wearing a school T-shirt. Great outfit Lou!

That's my boy!

Off and out of the house, big bro leading the way.

The Plumber and his Mate

New System, (you can tell he is a professional 'cause he has a special light thingey!)



Proud moment

OK maybe that should have been what you did first, not last! Honestly men and those manuals

No...I am confident and I am The Plumber

Yesterday we saw this in the sky above West Chester and let me tell you it was going at quite a clip. When we caught up we could see that it is a ...........minion.........how flippin exciting is that

I got this back shot as it turned and motored off whilst we waiting at traffic lights...........

Oh more next time. This is already shaping up to be a busy month and Louie will hopefully have his first performance later this month...........phewee.