First Day of School

Monday was the first day of school. Jumble is in 9th grade, Jet is in 2nd grade, and Minnie is in 6th grade. How did my babies all get to be so big?! The kids hate that I make them pose for these photos every year, but I tell them some day they will be glad. They all came home happy that evening and seemed to have made friends and had a good day. I could have handled a few more weeks of summer, but ready-or-not, the school year has begun. It certainly feels like fall here. For the last two weeks, we have been opening the windows in the house at night since it cools down to quite cold at night (the kids wrap up in blankets when they get up in the morning), and one day last week it was so cool that we kept the windows open all day--not even close to needing air conditioning! Very bizarre for us--it isn't showing any signs of cooling off at ALL--day or night--in Arizona in August. We keep shaking our heads in disbelief that it is AUGUST. It feels like a typical October in Arizona. We are enjoying the weather (and have enjoyed it all summer) even though we know it means the winter is going to be way too cold!