I can't believe it, but I have all three kiddos in school now. Acacia is in third grade, Lydia is in kindergarten and Tyson just started pre-school this week. Acacia and Tyson are loving school, Lydia is having a little trouble adjusting. It's hard to be good all day. There have been quite a few tears shed from Lydia, but I have to say, I have enjoyed the break. Three months of the kids fighting was about to drive me crazy. Tyson is going to be the class clown I think, the first thing he did when he sat down was give the girl across from him a big thumbs up and his cheesiest smile, it was precious. Of course it is exhausting for all of them getting back into a new routine, summer was sleep late and play late. Acacia and her friends are at the age now where they are starting to call each other to find out what they are wearing to school and making sure they have got everything planned for recess and silly things like that. Thankfully, Acacia is not crazy about boys yet. In third grade I think that is a little much, but Lydia breaks up with a different boy each day, so who knows. Jeff is not looking forward to any of the stuff that comes with girls growing up, women confuse him and the hormones haven't even kicked in yet.
We have also been busy with animals. My children love animals and unfortunately for Jeff, so do I. We started out with two dogs and two cats. We had to find a new home for our big dog because he kept getting loose, and he ended up living in San Antonio, TX. So the kids have been wanting a new dog. Well instead, our cat went and got pregnant, we didn't even know she was until she had one kitten. That was it, just one. Well, of course we couldn't get rid of her only baby. So we had a new addition to the family, Socrates, cute kitty. Come to find out her one kitten is blind, has a broken tail, almost died of a bacterial infection, and has a crazy cowlick on his back. He fits right in! Well, before we could get hussy momma to the vet to get spayed the kids let her outside, after being told, DO NOT LET HER OUT! And now we have four more kittens. They think we should keep them all, but thankfully my clients have been nice enough to offer homes to the little sweethearts. The kittens, not the kids.
Business has been great, I put tanning beds in the shop back in May and between tanning and nails and helping people with their kids and dogs I stay plenty busy. I watch twin 10 month old boys 2-4 times a week, since they were 3 months old they have been coming here and of course I help my sis with her kids whenever she needs me. Daycare is so limited in Ellsworth and my friend has two sets of twins, so she was needing affordable help. Lydia loves helping with the twins, she is going to be a great mommy some day. She gives lots of love to the babies. We also dog sit for several families. The kids like helping with that also. I hope the kiddos are learning that helping others makes us feel good.