Ok...so I'm slacking

Yeah Yeah Yeah...I know.  It's been forever since I posted last.  Been just a tad busy these days.  School has started...for all five of us.  Yep!  ALL five!  Joel joined us this year to make it a family endeavor.  I thankfully have one more semester after this one and them I'm done!  Can't wait.  It has been a fun challenge for me and I may continue, if I feel the need to, ya know, stress more than I already do.  So this is what's happened since my last post...

Like I said, school started!  This year we have a 7th grader, 5th grader (aka last year of elementary), and a Kindergartener.  Nicholas was so excited to join the boys that for the first two weeks it was all we could do to get him to settle down.  He was bouncing off the walls.

Nicholas was a little nervous as we entered his classroom.  He made sure that I followed him in, but then sat right down and listened to all his wonderful teacher, Mrs. Gomes, had to say.

This is the point in the morning when Mrs. Gomes said it was time to say good-bye to their parents.  I about lost it.  Honestly, I'm quite proud I didn't.  What kept me from losing it?  See the little boy next to Nicholas in the picture below?  The one wearing the brown and yellow plaid shirt?  He was staring directly at me, looking me right in the eye.  I didn't want to be "That Mom". 

So I held it together with a HUGE lump in my throat, kissed and hugged my baby's sweet neck one more time and regretingly dragged myself out of the room and to the car where I was...alone.  Oh the quiet. Yes, I have been in the car alone before.  But this felt different.  When David started Kindergarten Connor was 2.  When Connor started Kindergarten Nicholas was a baby.  I haven't had five mornings a week to myself. 

I have to say that it feels nice.  Now, I don't have my mornings all to myself since I still have the twins that I watch each day, but I do get at least 30 minutes.  30 sweet, beautiful, peaceful minutes to do as I want.  Hey, I'll take what I can get.