shifting moods

Felt good about today -- bought kids a new rug and new bookshelf for their room -- installed rug with help of youngest. Felt less good when oldest challenged me on assembly of the bookshelf. A little surprised when former field ed supervisor asked me (again, 2nd year) to plan her child's birthday party. Why didn't I say no? When I figure that out, I will blog it! Hubby said he thought it would be new intern's turn to be the gopher and gal Friday.... Oh, well.

Excited about school -- mine and kids' -- think my schedule is a good one and feel like I can handle this fall (we'll see) -- but I always prefer fall to spring anyway, at least as far as academics and scheduling go. Waiting for ord grades -- long wait until Nov. Went to elementary school tonight for "ice cream social" -- to see the new classroom and meet the new teacher. Nice tradition -- school does it every year and kids can get wound up and exorcise their summer laziness and orneriness before they get into the real swing of things. Like the youngest's new teacher. Young woman, very excited to be a teacher. That's nice to see. Now need to shift into fall schedule/routine. No more staying up until 2 and 3 a.m. and sleeping late (only did that for about a week, but that's all it takes to ruin me!). Signing off for now....