School days

Busy busy busy. I don't know why I always think that when school starts things will get less crazy?  But then again, I always think that summer will bring less chaos as well. Not so. I just need to accept that life will be crazy until the kids move out.

So about a month ago I hurt my back. I strained it so bad I could hardly walk. Luckily I had my annual physical with my doctor and I mentioned that my back was killing me and that I seem to get backaches A LOT. My doctor referred me to physical therapy. So twice a week i've been doing physical therapy. My back is very slowly getting better. And now I know how to deal with it better. However, my poor posture seems to be a major contribution to my back aches. I slouch when I stand, I slouch when I sit, and I don't always lift things properly. I'm ruining my back by doing all of those.

So school is going well for both kids. Jadon loves it still, and loves riding the bus. Sadly, last week they practiced their "drills"- fire drill, earthquake drill, and lockdown drill. It saddens me that they have to even HAVE a lockdown drill. Things have sure changed since we were in school.

Avery enjoys preschool, and during snack time, parents are selected each day to bring in snacks for the kids. It has to be healthy snacks, except on birthday days, people can bring in cupcakes or cookies or something like that. Well, Avery is not into "healthy" really. So twice now parents have brought in carrot sticks. The first day Avery refused to eat it. But the teacher told her she had to take a "polite bite" meaning she had to at least try it. Apparently she screamed about this, i'm not surprised, and it took her 20 minutes to take a teeny tiny bite. She also had to try a piece of turkey on another day. Avery does not eat meat, so again there was issues, but she did end up trying it. If only we could get her to try things around here, but we think its because she is in the room with a bunch of classmates and also because she's not quite comfortable enough with her teachers yet to blatantly tell them NO! like she does to us.
And in case anyone thinks we baby her when it comes to eating. I can assure you, we do not. She has missed many many many dinners and desserts because she refuses to eat or even try dinner. She skips probably on average 4-5 dinners a week. Our pediatrician told us last year at her appointment that after a few missed dinners, she'll get the hint. HA! Fat chance. She gets the point and she does not care. She's stubborn as can be. Little stinker!
She has another appointment coming up in a couple months so we'll see what her pediatrician says this time!

I painted Avery's bedroom this week, so now both kids' bedrooms are painted in colors they picked out. I love the color of Jadon's room, its a blue color. Avery wanted purple. Dark purple. So her room got painted a darker purple color. She loves it. Its not terrible, but its not my favorite. I had tried and tried to convince her to pick a lighter shade, but she desperately wanted the dark purple. So be it.

And so it begins again

Today was the first day of school for both the kids. Jadon's school was a frenzied crazy mess, as first days usually are. Poor kid though, we couldn't find his classroom. When we came last week to visit, the secretary showed us one of the wrong classrooms. So we found it right before the bell rang and we felt terrible leaving him like that. Queue me crying.
Then we dropped Avery off at preschool, and that was much less chaotic since there are only 14 kids, and we've been there before. I don't think she even knew or cared that we left, she was too busy playing with a Little People princess castle. But queue more crying for me anyways.

So now here I sit, its silent in the house, I can actually hear the fridge quietly humming. Its very strange, something I haven't experienced much of in 6.5 years. I feel oddly lost. Kindof like how I feel when I go shopping by myself, I feel more scattered and like i'm forgetting something.

Lunches will be totally strange and quiet for me and Avery, without Jadon here to jabber continuously.

I'm so excited to see him get off the bus this afternoon! He's been looking forward to riding the bus. I'm excited to hear all about his day.