The Last Week!!

A 10 week summer vacation is now coming to a close.... time goes by so quickly doesn't it?

This is our final week before heading back to school. Well... Cooper that is. He starts Kindergarten on Monday, August 4th and so that's big news in our household! Gracie will go back to her private preschool that her and Cooper have gone to since the beginning. The Atlanta area no longer offers public pre-k, so I'll be paying for one more year's worth of school!

We headed to Target today to pick up our list of school supplies. Holy Cow!! It's a lot of stuff!! But of course we had fun picking out our new book bags and lunch boxes for the year. Final decisions were made on Hello Kitty backpack with a princess lunch box and a Speed Racer book bag with a Sponge Bob Lunch box. Some of my favorite memories of school as a child revolves around those special lunch boxes and trapper-keepers (this shows how old I am!! Do they even make trapper-keepers any longer??)! So I didn't argue or butt in my judgement at all. I let them choose exactly what they saw to be perfect! :)

Of course for me as one chapter comes to an end and another is about to begin, I always reflect back to what my original plans for that time period were and whether or not I accomplished what I had set out to do or not. My original plan for this summer was to cut back on a lot of my duties and try to relax some. Well... it's a good thing I did, because I've been really busy this summer and can't imagine what it would have been like had I tried to include everything!! :)

There were projects that I had hoped to accomplish that didn't even get touched. There were many naps missed, and not near enough time spent at the pool just yet, but overall it's been a great summer! I've had the opportunity to go to some really cool places and spend time developing my new career as well as and most importantly hang out with the two coolest people on the planet!

And though we've just about had it with each other... I'm ready for them to head back to school as I'm sure they're ready to not have to look at me all day long and get to see their friends more often... each summer really is kind of like one of life's little chapters, and I will definitely cherish this one!

I know that I'm probably the only person out there that will be dealing with school buses and packed lunches in less than a week, so to all of you people out there still enjoying your summer, I hope that you soak up every last bit of it!! I know we will be for the next 5 days!!