Back to School and all grown up!

I am just so proud of my Big William. He is so grown up. I can't even believe it anymore. Got up this morning at 6:45, got dressed, watched TV and then had breakfast, got his gear and I dropped him in his new third grade classroom at 8 a.m. Wow, third grade! If only I could go back to third grade.
Actually it would be 4th that I would go back to, I loved that teacher!
William sat in his desk, unloaded his supplies in it and promptly started an activity pack that his teacher had assembled for him.
Jack got up early this morning, got in the tub, got out and got dressed. He is so good in the morning too! He was watching SpongeBob when I got home from dropping off William and Lynda was hanging with him.
The last harrah for the weekend was a family excursion to the beach on Saturday. We went crabbing in Lincoln City and caught one that was legal to bring home. We called it the $300 crab because when all was said and done (licenses, gear, food and misc.) the day cost us that much and all we had was one crab! Paul made delicious crab stuffed mushrooms with it though!
Sunday was a free-for-all. Paul was supposed to take the boys fishing and I was going to clean our bedroom finally. But my mom called and asked if I wanted to go shopping at Costco with her. I haven't been to a Costco in years, so I jumped at the chance.
William headed off to a friends house for the afternoon and Paul did the same.
I took Jack with me. We had to make a lunch stop at Mickey D's in Sherwood so he could play in the PlayPlace and then we went to La-Z Boy. It had an estuary behind it, so Jack and I explored and saw tons of minnows, bugs and geese. It was pretty cool, definitely a boy thing.
At Costco I loaded up my cart. I had projected $200 before-hand to my mom and I ended at $238, so I wasn't that far off target.
When we got back the cul-de-sac was having a gathering, so the boys and I headed over to Lynda's house to go swimming. I didn't go....duh. But Jack and William had a blast and then we had food and was back inside before too late.
Monday I went back to fix the Mac store up a little for today, and Paul took William, Jack, Nick and Chris to go crawfishing. They came back with a large pail full and Paul cooked them and mixed them with the crab meat to make the mushrooms that he took over to my mother's house for John's Birthday dinner.
My brother turned 31 yesterday. I can't even believe he is that old. You would never know it by how he looks and especially not by how he acts!
Well, I am off and running. It is a beautiful day on the coast and I have a ton to do.

Sept. 5, 2006