My last post was in May at the end of the school year. What was supposed to be a fairly quiet summer ended up being pretty busy. Here's the quick recap:
We've had hair cuts...
We went to Grand Isle for Father's Day with some friends. I believe this has become an annual trip. The kids have a great time and so do the adults. By sheer chance, this year we ended up staying in David's dad's cousins camp. It was a great location: 2 blocks to the beach and its own pier on the bay.
I quit my job working for a State Farm agent and went back to my degree, geology, and accepted a job working for the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality. It's a great place for me to get my foot back in the door while relearning all I forgot. I now have a commute in/out of Baton Rouge, but I go in for 6:30 am and leave at 3 pm. I pretty much miss all of the traffic each way, and I'm home for 4 pm. The hard part will be when school starts and I won't get to see the girls in the morning before they start their day. A little face time may be needed instead.
I had a couple of days off before starting the new job, so we decided to surprise the girls with a last minute beach trip. The weather started off looking bad, but ended up being beautiful, as Destin always is.
Oh, before the beach trip we tried camping in Oak Mountain State Park, dog in tow, but the weather there was really bad, and we ended up leaving after one night (we were only staying 2) because it really was going to be a rain-out. That also prompted the beach trip: we wanted to end summer on a good note.
July also brought my 25 year high school reunion. I have not been to my other reunions, partly because I was only at Ursuline for my senior year and I really feel like the reunions for my high school in Dallas are the ones I should be going to - it's just hard to get to those. I opted to go, figuring this would be the only one I attended. We had a good time and it was nice to see some of my old (and by old I mean some of the ones I've known since I was 4-5 years old) friends.
That pretty much concluded the summer. The girls start school in a week - 6th and 3rd grades. Eva is in middle school, and they are beginning the transition to high school. HIGH SCHOOL! They now have schedules that match the high school so they are better prepared when they get there, or so they say, They have a home room teacher for english, then change teachers for everything else, like high school. They have 8 classes they take, but only 4 in a day and it rotates each day.
Wish us luck with our many changes, and I'll try to be better about updating this blog as events occur.
