Day 1

Matt left yesterday to start the fall semester and with Mike gone, this is the first day I've lived alone in 22 years. No wonder I feel so strange.

But I can always count on family to help me out of any depression(s). This year, Lia starts first grade and John starts kindergarten. Two pretty big milestones!

He may look little in a big classroom but I have no doubt he will fill that classroom with his enthusiasm and curiosity.

 Lia is just as excited to be returning to school and was happy to see that the library had stocked some new books. Once home, she enlisted her grandmother in a search for some books that Lia had never read before, especially cookbooks.

Look out, world!