First Week of School

The first week of school was pretty much uneventful. I can not wait for Mark to go back to work because he throws every body's schedules off. He is always willing to let the kids stay up and play video games or something stupid even after I tell them to go to bed. He has been staying up all night playing video games and then going to bed when we start school.
I went to pick up Elijah's comp notebook at the preschool on Monday and they said to go ahead and bring him to school. So Elijah is going to preschool Monday, Wednesday, and Friday every week. Luckily we only live a couple of blocks away from the preschool so we can walk as long as it is nice out. I forgot to say that he got his preschool grant back so everything worked out fine there.
Corrisa is doing chorus at the middle school. She loves to sing and so we let her stay in chorus, but she did have to give up piano because we can't afford it this year.
Miles, Briley, and Gabe had to give up soccer for the fall season because we couldn't afford that either. They didn't seem too upset by it.
I broke my toe yesterday and it hurts bad. I walked to pick up Elijah from school and walked the kids to the library and by the time I got home I didn't think I was going to be able to walk anymore. In fact I thought one of the kids was going to have to run ahead and get Mark to pick me up.
Mark started cleaning out our garage yesterday. He had me go through some of the old toy totes and throw away toys that were broken or that I didn't want anymore. It probably would have been easier if I didn't have 3 boys outside telling me that they wanted this or that. I didn't throw away much, but I didn't switch out some of the toys that have been out for some that have been put away for a while. I now have peace and quite because they are all in the toy room playing with all the "new" toys. Markus is even having fun because we found two old cell phones for him to play with.
Corrisa is upstairs going through all her clothes and getting out what she doesn't want or what doesn't fit her. That is always a fun time a year. It is almost as good as clothes shopping. It is too warm yet to switch out the boys clothes so I think I will wait another month. I am going to switch my summer church clothes for fall clothes. It is really too late in the year to wear my light colored outfits anymore and I miss my winter/fall clothes.
I think that is all the latest on the family. Hopefully I can keep everybody updated more regularly. I know that it will start getting busier once we get into church group meetings and Bible studies and such. We have our church's conference coming up in a couple of weeks. That is always a refreshing time of year.
Have a great week and holiday weekend.