Happy almost-end-of-summer everyone!  So the two-year-long-pod-in-driveway (man I like the hyphen right now) was finally hauled away Friday and concrete cutters tore up the driveway to make room for plantings.  Matt's goal: a new outdoor space by the end of the month.  It will be a lot of work, but I know he can do it.  My task: garage sale. We have TONS of great furniture, clothes, toys and do-hickeys that are worth selling and not tossing, but I just can't seem to prganize a sale. It seems so overwhelming for me to organize this and much easier to just have Got Junk take it all away one day.  But some cash for my classroom does sound good.

 

Little Man and I have spent most of the summer together enjoying swimming lesson and soccer camp; Mara attended Kids-On The-Go! summer camp at her old school as usual.  Remind me next year that I detest Montessori of Alameda and I should not go back!!  We are starting to get ready for school - I have hit the school supply sales and cleaned out the two small clothes from the kids' closets.  I CAN'T WAIT to take Mara school clothes shopping.

 

Carter and I are a bit sick of each other, I think, as 24-7 is a lot to take of each other.  We've had a couple of drop down brawls and I even had to call in reinforcement last night (my Mom) because I was afraid we would hurt each other (Matt was out of town). This morning I baby-proofed his room by taking out anything that could (in Becky's words) "hurt the house." Bye-bye train table and tracks, Slippers the fish, any solid dinosaur, cars and trucks, his art table and chairs, etc. Since beginning 1-2-3 Magic and enforcing time outs this week, Carter has basically destroyed his bedroom door by throwing things at it, and he even smashed his piggy bank to pieces - all in the name of negative attention and refusing to time out. Boy that kid is strong-willed. I only hope he learns to channel his aggressive energy to something positive, like becoming a lawyer!  At swimming lessons and soccer,  however, he has behaved like a "normal" and funny 3-year-old.

 

That's about it!