This year I decided to wait until the first official day to start decorating. A lot of people like to decorate in the beginning of September but as for me, I wanted to hold onto summer for as long as possible. Today is autumn. Today I can bring out the boxes from the attic and fill the house with everything orange, yellow, pumpkins and scarecrows. I'm going to wait until October to put out the Halloween things. I want to enjoy the seasons as they come.
Tonight B has her tap class. This is her fifth year of dance. M has basketball tryouts. This will be his first year playing basketball. He's also playing trumpet with the 6th grade band, in his first year of boy scouts and will be back to baseball in the spring. Almost every evening is busy with some activity which means I have to get dinner prepared early and we all have to rush to eat it up. It's important for us to have kids that are active but sometimes it feels like maybe they are too active. That's better than sitting in front of screens all the time. They go days without picking up a video game. Although the television seems to be on more often than I'd like. But, hey, they need that chance to chill out. School for them both seems to be going well so far.
I've been spending a lot of time getting caught up on housework and also doing a ton of reorganizing and decluttering. The downstairs, which is used as a playroom, is finally organized and looking more like a livable space rather than a storage area. My goal was to have this house looking clean and organized and it's taking a lot of time but I'm finally seeing so much progress. A messy house gives me so much anxiety. I'm finding the less we have the better it is to keep things clean.
Even with everything going on we went out and purchased two new members of the family.
Meet Louie and Nutmeg. The kids named them. Since our rabbit died last year it's been quite a heartbreak for us, especially for my daughter. After the kids held some guinea pigs at the fair a few weeks ago they've been asking if they can get their own. The original plan was to get hamsters but they changed their minds and wanted these adorable babies. They are so tiny but will grow to be full size guinea pigs in no time. It was only yesterday when we brought them home so they are still scared and needing to get used to their new home. I'm not sure what I got myself into but the kids are so happy with them. I just hope they continue to want to care for them.
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