In another episode of Im gonna miss this

Clair is full of ideas and boy does she love to snuggle with me and tell me about her ideas. One of the best parts of my day is when we’re all clean and showered and we lay down to snuggle and talk before bed. She has always got something exciting going on in her mind and she loves to share it with me.

Tonight‘s topic was about robots. She has some great ideas about robot she wants to make. She wants to make a robot that will wake us up and then go downstairs and make our breakfast. So we spent some time looking up how robots can be created to be able to go up and down stairs. Later we talked about whether or not her school could set up a robotics club, and/or maybe let them join some type of robotics competition. She has a plan to ask her principal. I hope she follows through with asking and even if he says no, it’s still a great learning experience to try to advocate for what she wants to see happen in her school. 

I love this girls, busy mine and her willingness to try to take steps to see if she can make things happen.

We captured this picture after our last in NM elementary school back to school day. 

Summer flew by

We had a busy summer with a month spent in Europe. I wish I would’ve done a better job of capturing stories from our time in Scotland and Italy. When we got home, the kids had about a month of lounging about at the house before school started. Now they are off on another year of school. 

- Ellie is in 10th grade. 

- Max is an eighth grader. It’s his last year of middle school. I’m happy for him getting to be the big kid on campus.

- Clair is in fifth grade. It’s her last year of elementary school and my last year as a mom of an elementary school kid.

They were all looking forward to going back to school for different reasons. Ellie was very much looking forward to more social time with friends. Max was also hoping for the social engagement. Clair just loves to learn and was hoping to get to spend more time with math. She loves math!

So far the school year seems to be going OK for them all. It was a rough start for Max, because none of his favorite people were in his class. However, he seems to have figured out how to find some new people to talk to you and spend time with his favorite friend.

my girl loves taking pictures with me in special moments. The other two humored me.