Today was the first day of school...still trying to figure out how to post those pictures. Actually I did manage to post them but removed them again because they needed to be rotated and I don't have time to figure it out today. I'm such a beginner blogger; I need some major help and some extra time.
Quinn is now a Freshman, and Courtney is a big 7th grader...hard to believe! Cameron has decided to work, work, work so that he can turn his mission papers in come December or it would have been a first day of College for him.
I had a little "first" of my own today as I was asked late last night by a friend to work a temp job for a few weeks. I still don't know what's going to happen employment-wise for me in the next little while, but for now, I'm trying to reorganize my life as I try doing something a little differently. I've always been home with the kids, so I'm beginning a new phase as well, no matter where the winds of work take me. I'm making lists that the kids will most likely enjoy ignoring in my absence, planning menus and clipping coupons, figuring out carpools and eliminating things from each one of our schedules. I'm like the Tazmanian devil over here, causing mahem and whipping everyone's lives into shape in the process. (I would post a picture...but, you know...)
I had a few random thoughts as I was driving to and from work today. Totally random... but it's funny to me how often they are true:
1-Why is it that which ever car I happen to be driving is the one that is out of gas?
2-Why is it that I seem to be the only one in my home who can change the toilet paper roll? (Seriously, each and every inch of paper has been scraped off the roll and it is just left sitting there...waiting for me. This happens in EVERY bathroom, btw.)
3-Why is it that if I have somewhere important to be in the morning, I can't fall asleep or stay asleep for fear of sleeping past the alarm?
4-Why is it that the one and only time the kids lock themselves out of the house is the one day I'm an hour away and can't get home to let them in?
5-How many times a week is "too many" to have spagetti for dinner?
6-Whatever would moms do without Cream of Mushroom soup?
7-How long should I leave the vacuum in the middle of the family room floor before someone (anyone) decides it should be put away? Or should it be put away? I don't know. Maybe if it's left out it looks like we are just getting ready to vacuum and that could be a good thing I guess.

Just a few ramblings that popped into my mind today....I'm not complaining really, just observing. And actually, on a good day they are kinda humorous.