Odds and Ends

The Bean started her 6 pm swimming lessons tonight, which is a little late for all of our tastes but has the wonderful benefit of allowing Dad to come and see her swim now. We had to move her because Mom had shifted her hours starting this week to be in the office five days a week, for six hours each day. This way I pick the Bean up right after nap time at Beantree, and the two of us go and help out in the LCDS library until the Moo gets out at 330. Then we three girls have the whole afternoon together. It will be a nice routine once it gets established and will ease the Bean into school five days a week, something she has never before experienced but will if she gets into LCDS for next year (she applies in November and will undergo testing in January/February -- we will find out in March). Right now, it is just making me sad to lose those days the Bean and I had together, but she is happy with her new room at school and her friends.

The Moo will start new swimming lessons through her school on the 19th and will try out for swim team sometime within the next two weeks. She is also starts taking theory classes in horse care that evening at AAES, as part of their Rider Certificate program; they have one or two classes a month and they are geared at her level.

So our new routine is still taking shape, and it will be awhile before it feels natural to us. We are excited about the changes though! Mom managed to sit on her hand when they were asking for room rep volunteers this year, but did decide to tackle the Book Fair. Mom has it on good authority that the librarians will work closely with her on this, as Mom has volunteered at but has never chaired the Book Fair before, and has no clue how to do it. Hopefully it will not be a huge disaster.

On the work front, Mom got her performance evaluation on her new account, and was ranked "exceeds expectations," which was a pleasant surprise and probably the only area in her life where she would get such a ranking. I am off to Michigan this week for consulting and recruiting, which has the wonderful benefit of making Dad take the Moo to riding lessons so he can see how she has progressed while I am in Ann Arbor. And having brought this post neatly full circle, I will sign off until next week, when I am back from the not so frozen north!