The kids are back to school this week, they went back yes­ter­day. I miss them already. I must admit that the one thing I truly miss about home­school­ing is the time we spent as a fam­ily. I know we have made the right deci­sion this year by hav­ing them enter back into a tra­di­tional school set­ting. They are doing won­der­fully in all areas. It is a great time for them, but like all things there are minor draw­backs & less time to sim­ply enjoy each other’s com­pany as a whole fam­ily is one of those drawbacks.

Yet, over break we got a lot of good laughs in as as a fam­ily. It was a lot of fun. God, we how will miss these days when the kids are grown. It is already going so fast.

Anyway,enough of that talk or I will cry about my kids grow­ing up while typing.

Oh another good thing over break was not only did we get to spend a lot of fam­ily time together but I also got out with some old friends. I love that even if we don’t get to talk daily like we did as teens we can always pick back up like we saw each other yes­ter­day. It is really awe­some to have friends who have grown with you over decades that you can share your life with.

And as life starts to return back to our new nor­mal I am fin­ish­ing up my work for the upcom­ing semes­ter, work­ing on my other work projects and keep­ing the lit­tles enter­tained. The two youngest chil­dren have more energy than I know what to do with some­times. It is really spec­tac­u­lar to wit­ness, I wish I could bot­tle it up and sell it. I’d make a fortune!

Mike and I have also been enjoy­ing quiet evenings. He is try­ing to turn me into a Doc­tor Who fan. We have been catch­ing up on the past series episodes via Ama­zon & Net­flix. He believes 2013 will be the year he makes a con­vert out of me. We’ll see. It may be pos­si­ble, after all he is fairly per­sis­tent. Plus if I must admit it I do like watch­ing it even if it is only for the fact that we are spend­ing time together.

Another fact of life is I have been so busy that writ­ing here has not been as steady as I would like. I have using my blog­ging time {the free time in my day not allot­ted to work, kids and keep­ing things run­ning some­what less chaotic} to exer­cise, read more and just be quiet. The last part is a hard one for me! I have a ten­dency to want to fill in the silence with words even if the words aren’t needed. Hope­fully the time I have been tak­ing will help me be more thought­ful. One can hope. Here’s to 2013 and lots of hope.

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