first week!!!

Well, the first week has come and gone and we are all still confident that this plan will work. Taylor studied Spanish, Physics, Algebra, and American History with me throughout the week, among his own educational endeavors, and the babies had a great week at their "schools". On Wednesday and Friday morning Trevor told me, "Mom, I don't have to go to school everyday." But, didn't fuss with me when I dropped him off. Trent was home early Wednesday, so he picked up the babies and cleaned the kitchen and living room, which gave me a chance get some homework finished that night. Thursday night he went to the Bucs game with his Dad, so Taylor and I stayed up late watching Algebra I lectures and doing my homework for my Algebra class. Jewel was a little clingy Wed. night, and they seemed a little tired by Friday afternoon, but other than that the babies are adjusting fine. Which we expected. We still have to piece together a routine that works and gets all of our "chores" finished, but we will finish painting Taylor's room and I have some but not too much homework left until Wednesday and I feel pretty ready for my first couple of quizzes on Wed., so we are keeping up fine so far. Of course, we didn't run all week, so we will try to fit that in next week. This morning we got to play a wonderful game of "AAAh! Daddy's a monster!" This is how it goes. Jewel, at some point in a round of family play, this morning it was a little pillow pounding on Dad, decides it is time to begin. She jumps, crawls, climbs, or tricks her way into my arms and yells, "AAAH! Daddy's a monster." We run, Dad roars, we hide and Dad finds us. Then, I try to hold off the "monster" while the kids escape. This morning while Jewel climbed over Trevor's bed and ran to the door she called back, "Run, Hogan, Run." So funny!

first day....

today was my first day as a full time student, jewel's first day ever in daycare, and just the first day of trevor's second week of preschool. i really do feel bad that the babies are in daycare, and i thought about them a hundred times today. but, i am glad to be making progress toward a degree, and they both seem to enjoy their time in daycare. i hope that they continue to enjoy it. jewel actually didn't want to leave with me, she wasn't finished playing, apparently. but, she did run over to me when i got there. i was home for just long enough to see dinner served before i had to run again. taylor had a pretty productive day, he is going to have to step it up, though if this is going to continue. we don't have the game ready, so it forced him to find his own activities. he does this for shorter periods, usually and by lunch claimed he didn't know what to do. dad gave him a few suggestions and later i gave a few more, he managed to get a few activites accomplished and watched two lectures. and it's pretty cool that tomorrow is more relaxed, so let the school year begin...

just some stuff...

Proof that Mommy still "wins" sometimes...