Here's to the New

Here's to our buddies

This summer definitely ranks up there with all the good stuff that we like, ice cream, swimming, cool morning breezes and the smell of clean laundry.    We had two months of carefree living, ok as carefree as we get here at the Lane household.  They say all good things must come to an end.  Is this true or do we just move on to more good things?  I hope the later is true, because we are moving into a lot of new things this school year as we say good-bye to our summer.  My girl will be in a new school and doing new things.  This has never been an issue with her.  Sure she is like all of us and gets nervous when going down a new path, but she is good at paving new roads.  My boy also will be at a new school with a new teacher and this makes for a very nervous mom.  I know that sometimes things have to change in order to move forward, and we want to keep moving forward, because moving  forward is our motto here.  We got that from the movie Meet the Robinsons.  If you haven't seen it I suggest you do.  In planning for the new year I put together a profile of  E for the teacher.  It includes hopefully just enough information to help her understand where my boy is coming from and where he is going and what we would like to see from his school year.  This is very important because E is a mystery to most and if you hold the key that unlocks the door to his world you will experience the most amazing things from my boy and that is what I hope for this new teacher.  I want her to hold the key and have the patience and understanding to make things click for him in his new environment.  We start on Thursday and I still feel like I need to do more in planning for this big day.  We always start getting our school routine on two weeks before and well we have yet to get this started.  Why we are lagging this year I don't know.  Maybe it is because I haven't spent enough time doing what we do in the summer, or I am just not ready to say goodbye every morning to my kids.  Yes I am one of those crazy moms that would love to just keep them home, but I am also living in the real world and I know that just would not benefit any of us.  So here's to the new I say...bring it on!! 


Playing at the park turned into a photo shoot


This weekend was about getting that last get together in before all our schedules change and we can barely squeeze in a simple hello.  We enjoyed hanging with the Day family!!  Jackie came over and gave me a makeover with a color and cut.  She totally keeps me from turning grey.  She just won't let it happen and I love her for that.  I never ask for a color she just brings it over knowing it is time.  It is always time because I am turning grey on top and it is not the good kind of grey where it is all in one spot like Jay Leno's started out.  No signature grey streak for me.  It is nice to hang with friends when the evening just kind of flows from one thing to the next and the next thing you know it is dark outside and you realize that all I fed my guests were homemade potato skins, chips and dips served with limeades for the kids and mojitos for me and Jackie.  No dinner just snacks that we topped off with a trip to Cherryberry for some nice cold yogurt served up how ever we wanted!!  E even took one bite, he spit it out quickly when he discovered it wasn't anything he was familiar with.  Yes this weekend went way to fast as did the whole summer.  But we are moving forward because really there is no where else to go.  So I will see you down the new path that we are taking and new is good, new is good.  Most of these pictures were taken by Jackie. She always gets the good ones!!

Nothing but sweet in this picture