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The Bunch Are Slowly Getting Into The School Routine

T works hard to get better at basketball.

Last week was our first week of school and we already had to take a day off to help C and H move. This week we took another day off so L could go with her friend and her friend's mom to celebrate her friend's 16th birthday at Great Wolf Lodge. L had a blast! She said she must have walked a million steps climbing up all the stairs to ride the slides over and over again. While L was at her friend's party, her friend's little brother came to stay with us. He is T's best friend so T was excited to spend a whole day with him. They are always so quiet when he comes over! The boys literally just play basketball the whole time or silently sit next to each other playing video games. It is way different than the girls. They are all giggles and shrieking. 

I have been helping T get ready for basketball season by staying on him about getting his workouts in. I also monitor how much he eats now too because he lost over 30 lbs this summer and is getting a little thin. He gets so into playing ball and doing fun stuff he forgets to eat or tries to just grab something real quick and rush back to playing. He is really excited for basketball this year. We don't really get started until November so luckily I have a little bit of time before things get crazy.

A starts school on Monday, which might not happen if we get a lot of storms. Country life has its own rules. There are no internet cables run so internet options rely on line of sight satellite, i.e. heavy rains=no line of sight=no internet. Country living also means aerobic septic, which means only so many gallons of water can be processed each day. If we get heavy rains that means no showers, no laundry, and no dishwasher.  We don't think it's weird anymore, but at first when we moved here it felt weird to plan our showers and laundry around the weather. A starts work in a week and all of our schedules will have to adjust because our third car will be in use. The big SUV is usually only is used for pulling the trailers, but for the next month or so until we find A another small car I will be using it. Thankfully, there is no basketball stuff yet so I shouldn't have to use it too much. 

Our birthday season starts next week and the kids and I are deciding how to celebrate. It worked out that A doesn't work on her birthday so she will be able to have dinner with us between her classes. It is going to be so different with her gone all the time. 

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