Back to...blogging

I was away all of August, and have spent the first part of September adjusting to the new school year. It was a rushed adjustment, but I admit sometimes flying by the seat of my pants makes me feel more alive; that is except when you are going on less than 3 hours of sleep some nights.  However, it takes time and visits to counselors and discernment and trips to the dentist and retooling and attending four different student open houses... for all of the commitments and carpools and schedules and simply my chosen distribution of energy to get sorted out each Fall.  When our vision of the new school year finally distills, even the children appreciate the process of getting back to responsible living after having guiltily viewed one or two too many Full House or Harry Potter marathons.  The pool is less inviting than it was; while still pretty to look at.  Perhaps we all begin to crave a reason to feel proud and accomplished again.  Don't get me wrong -- I love the rhythm of having a lazy summer.  We do enriching things in the middle of it so the children's brains don't totally atrophy, but the beginning and end of our summer are full of many unplanned playtimes and at least one weekly adventure -- with or without the teenagers.  I'm keenly aware that these summer days are numbered, and the days of having little ones eager to go on adventures is numbered too...and so we pretend they aren't numbered.  We don't think about it ending...until we kind of want it to.

So, they are back to school, and I am back to writing my mother's history and back to lesson planning for early morning seminary and back to the gym and back to making copies for Blake's teacher and back to making my boys practice piano and back to Book club and back to pta and booster club meetings and back to daytime temple trips and... I guess that means I'm back to blogging too.