Back to School

So, Timmy started school on August 24th.  I recovered from the much-too-traumatizing first day.  I love the quiet at home with just me and Tanner.  I absolutely love it.  When Tanner was a newborn, I felt very guilty about wanting to have one-on-one time with him.  Of course I love Timmy, but at the time, it was really hard to give him the attention he deserved when all I really wanted was to hold my new baby and get to know him.  Now that Timmy is in school all day, I feel like I finally get that precious bonding time with Tanner.  It’s beautiful.

 

Not only that, but Tanner is such a good kid when he is by himself.  When the boys are together, they fight.  They are both a bit headstrong, and so they disagree often, and Timmy usually gets his way because Tanner doesn’t fight back as long…  Anyway, it’s fun to see what Tanner chooses to play with or talk about when Timmy isn’t around to influence him.  He loves to pretend and role play.  Timmy would much rather race cars or have his toys “play kung-fu.”  Tanner likes to pretend to be a cat, or to have his toys pretend to be families – a little interesting with toys like Mickey Mouse, Shamu, Super Why and his favorite kitty. 

 

Doug is also back in school.  He finished his undergraduate degree in March, so now he’s starting him MBA.  Just as he did for his undergrad work, he’s doing his classes online through the University of the Incarnate Word.  We love the convenience of the online course, and he only has to focus on one class at a time since the classes are only 8 weeks long.  So far so good!

 

I’m back in class too.  I’m enjoying my classes so far, but I’m sure the stress level will increase as the semester goes on.  I’ve got Structures of English, Shakespeare: the Later Plays, World Civilization since 1500, and Romantic Literature (and that’s Romantic as in from the British Romantic Period – think Shelley Keats, Wordsworth, Coleridge, not romantic as in romance smut novels… )