School days...

Ok, tomorrow is the big day...and I don't mean just because Raymour and Flannigan are delivering my new living room set...Abby becomes a JUNIOR in High School!! She gets her ring next month, she takes the PSAT for "real" in October, and she starts her AP courses this semester. For the first semester, she has AP Chem every day, AP US History every other day, Pre-Calc and English 11 Enriched. We have 84 min. blocks in our block-scheduling. On the alternate days of APUS, she has band. In the spring, she will have AP US History every day, AP Chem every other day alternating with a study hall, French Grammar (4) every day and Gym alternating with Band. She will have one January Regents (English...please pray for no snow days!) and one June regents (Amer. History) and 2 AP tests in early May. Busy, busy year.

I sell books next week for Religious Ed and then the Catechetical Mass on the 12th with luncheon and we start classes the week of the 13th. I am doing Monday and Wednesday afternoons for 6th grade and Thursday nights for 7th grade. Remind me why I am doing this in December, when I am going nuts!

Ken has been busy doing catch-up chores from 5 1/2 yrs of school, so our LR/DR and Kitchen have been painted and the patio is nearly done. Next weekend, working on the front post and tying up my monster mums. He should hear by next week about his part-time nursing job. Fingers crossed!

So, I am now going to get Abby going, to make sure her new bookbag is packed and clothes out, etc. Good luck to all of you who have to do the same with your kids....and let's remember how lllloooonnnngggg this summer has been!