Dancing with Daffodils

 We got back from the beach and hit the ground running. Seminary started and I drove the carpool the first week so it was a tiring week but a good one. Dance also started and thanks to a wonderful senior in studio company, Lily goes straight from school to dance. It has really freed up my afternoons not to have that daily pick up, although I do miss seeing her and having a few minutes to check in. So she leaves at 5:50 am for seminary and gets home at 6:15 pm. Then she does homework, makes her lunch and goes to bed. Busy girl! The first week went pretty well but then last week she was tired and then she fell down the stairs and got a super nasty bruise and she forgot her breakfast one morning and she did a lot of crying. Lots of emotions and learning to manage her time and be more responsible and I think she is handling it all well but it will take some time to get in the groove. She did stay home from youth activities because she came home from dance that night and was just an emo...

 Last week was kind of lame. I didn't do much during the day while the kids were at school; it was just a low-energy week. I did take the boys to baseball though and Wednesday I took Emma and Brandon to the pool and Thursday Josh called me at 11:30 am and asked if I could meet him for lunch at 12 so that was fun. I just felt bleh and lonely and yet anti-social all week. It happens.  Friday morning we left by 8:30 am to head to North Carolina though and I was so happy. It was the weekend I'd been looking forward to all summer and I had been nervous about the hurricane but it had already blown through and wasn't a big deal in NC so our amazing weekend was on. We had a super easy drive and made it by 2:30, stopped at the grocery store quickly, got to the house and we were on the beach by 3:30. It was amazing and so beautiful. We stayed until almost 7pm and then went back to the house for tacos and ice cream and then the big kids watched part of Free Guy with us, which we finis...