Due to our unusual schooling arrangement (my friend Amy homeschools them in a sort of private tutoring/homeschooling deal), we start school rather later than, well, everyone.

So today was the first day of school for Georgie, Trinity, and Anika who are in grades 3, 2, and 1. Anika was soooo excited! Last year she did school at home with me so this is her first year off with the big kids. She’s been counting down the days for a week now. (”Mommy, only three more days until school starts!”). Yesterday she got her lunch ready and laid out her clothes and had a permanent smile on her face the entire night.

Here’s their first day of school picture. Aren’t they cute?

In preparation for school, we moved all the kids’ bedroom assignments around this weekend. Georgie and Trinity were together and the three little girls were in the bigger room. We needed to move the two little girls into Georgie & Trinity’s smaller room and put Georgie & Trinity with Anika in the larger room. That way the three school children would all be together.

So Thursday I cleaned out Anika’s room and Friday Georgie and Trinity and I weeded out their room, which naturally took three times longer despite being a smaller room with fewer people in it (mostly I sat on the floor trying not to pass out and directing traffic). I had done Anika’s when the kids were gone. I should have done the same with Georgie & Trinity’s.

Saturday was moving day so George and I took apart both sets of bunkbeds and swapped all four bed pieces into the opposite bedrooms. Why, you ask, couldn’t we have just swapped the bedding like normal people? Well, Georgie and Trinity’s set we got second hand (Craigslist) and it’s a lot more wobbly than the Kyra and Faith’s set. Plus it’s missing some of the bars at the top that keep the top occupant from falling out on their head. The bigger kids have enough sense to keep their heads out of the holes in the bars, but the littler kids are largely lacking in that helpful commodity.

So we took the beds apart and moved them back and forth down the hall and around the corners. In case you are wondering, this is not an advisable thing to do when you are pregnant and feeling rotten. After we moved the first bed, George looked at me and said, “you sure lose steam fast!” WELL DUHHHHH!!!!!! You want steam? I’m steamed now! What do you think I’ve been lying on the couch for two months for??

No, I didn’t say that. I just thought it very loudly. And we still had three more beds to move! And I’ve had more steam the last three days or so than I have had the last two months! When we were done, I crumpled on the couch for two hours and passed out almost immediately.

Another item in this weekend’s plus column: I made it through an entire church service (two hours) on Sunday for the first time in eight weeks. Hurray! I’ve only tried maybe three times during that period but every other time I’ve felt so rotten that I’ve come back home within about 45 minutes or so. I always feel weird when I don’t make it to church, so it was quite nice to enjoy an entire service.

All that is the demonstrative way to say that I’m feeling mildly better. I think. Although my going off the meds experiment a couple weeks ago ended two days after it started when I quickly went back on the meds, I seem to be getting a little bit of energy back. I cleaned half my kitchen the other day before pooping out (hubby comes down the stairs to find me on the couch with white lips and not moving. “You look wiped out!” he says. He’s so astute…. and it’s only taken six pregnancies to notice these things!).

Yes, pooping out after cleaning half a kitchen is really pathetic; but compared to the zero amount of kitchen I’ve been cleaning (my MIL, Mom, and various other people have been over to help some so the kitchen has not been growing science experiments for eight weeks straight), it’s an improvement.

Well, I think that’s all the news around here. I just had to share about the kids’ first day of school and my miniature burst of energy over the weekend (well, it was exciting to me).

Rachel

Way to go kiddos! Happy first day of school!!! We love you!!!

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