Everything’s fine.

That’s exactly what the school nurse says when she calls…”Everything’s fine.”  What she really means is that nobody’s dead, nobody has lost a limb, and nobody’s under arrest.  Someone may have projectile vomited in the cafeteria, be suffering temporary blindness from a bug in the eye, or have developed a nasty case of lice, but “Everything’s fine.”

That’s what it means when I say it too.  Everyone is alive and still has all of their limbs, and nobody has been incarcerated or institutionalized (yet).  I’m sorry that my blog-neglect has resulted in worried people emailing to ask if I’m OK.  I’m OK.  A lot has been happening and I’ve totally lost control of my life, leaving no time to write on my blog.  I actually took this week off from work to catch up on a few things, but so far I can’t get out from under my email long enough to do any catching up.

The last 2 months in a nutshell…

School is going well for all, although the school suggested that Adlani may have ADHD so we’re now in the process of investigating that.  I’m not convinced.  Norah is loving kindergarten, and is in a class of 12 kids with 2 teachers.  She read her first book to me (in Spanish) this weekend!  Aliya is doing very well and loves her teachers.  She has become a good helper to them (and the teacher’s pet – not sure where she gets that).

The fall soccer season just ended, and all of the teams did well.  Norah went from crying because nobody was giving her the ball, to getting in there and scrapping it up with the rest of the beehive.  Adlani says that he doesn’t want to play soccer next season, but we’ll see.  Aliya has one more season on the Flash, and will then move up to U-12.  The teams changed from red uniforms to navy, and we collected over 100 uniforms that were delivered to Rwanda and an island off of Haiti.  Ben’s team is in the finals for their league, and he has cut way back on the red and yellow cards this season.

Next up, ice skating for all 3 kids (all at the same time – yay!).  Adlani is in the Cub Scouts, Aliya is playing the role of Duchess in the Aristocats in the elementary school drama club and has also started violin lessons and the recorder club.  Norah is being tutored in Spanish so hopefully she can enter first grade next year after completing private kindergarten.  September birthdays are tough!  Speaking of birthdays – Norah turned 5, and Aliya turned 10 – photos to follow.

Annie (the dog) was bit by a pit bull while she was in our fenced yard, which resulted in a $600 trip to the vet.  She’s fine now but it was so gross!  She was a trooper though.

We had visits from Grammy, Uncle Josh, Auntie Rachael, Duende, Grandma Ginny, and Sherry, Devin, and Hannah within the last month or two.  Lots of fun for us, although we mostly dragged them around from one soccer game to another.  We went to the MFA with the Libbys and I took Mom and Rachael to St*tch and B*tch at Iron Horse Fibre Arts but it was hard to squeeze in much more.

We spent a weekend in Truro on the Cape for the beach wedding of Uncle Jeff and Auntie Liz, which was a lot of fun.  We loved Truro and spent some time in P-Town, which included several lessons on non-traditional ways of making babies.  :  The wedding was very low-key and the kids had a great time running around on the beach and jumping off the pier.

And me…I’ve been extremely busy with work, especially teaching 3 new classes last month.  I went to New York City for our annual conference and had a great time but came home exhausted.  My job and life have become unmanageable…something has to change.  I don’t know what or how, but it has to happen or I may crack.  I have been doing more crocheting lately and I realized why I enjoy it so much.  It is the ONE part of my life that’s orderly, and that I have control over.  Nobody touches it, and it’s soothing to my mind.  Plus it results in something pretty – bonus!

One of my projects for this week is to get our photos organized so I will be posting some photos of recent events soon.  I’m sure there’s a lot that I forgot to include in the summary, so stay tuned!