Late Again

Surprisingly enough, I find it difficult to get up and ready in time to catch the 5:30 am bus in to work. Can't imagine why. But the silver lining of the cloud that is my lateness is a blog post while I await the 6:00 bus, so it's not all bad.

The big news around here is that the kids started their new summer program yesterday. It was a definite success - The Girl has a friend from her school class who attends the same program, and The Boy has already found some new cronies (and another girl who is "5 and she's byootiful" - he loves the ladies, that one).

I'm not entirely excited about lunch-making. We were so spoiled during the year with a half-decent lunch program. It was a special menu (for the spoiley private school, I guess) and the kids ate rather delicous-sounding things like couscous, fish, and mangoes. Not all at once, of course.

Here, the options are things like Chef Boy-R-Dee (oh yes, they actually write that right on the menu. At least they're not trying to hide it), PB&J (an *awesome* option for the boy with the newly-discovered peanut allergy) and other convenience foods. So we bought lunch bags and thermoses (thermosi? thermi?) and we'll see how we go.

We also signed our new lease on Saturday, so The Move has begun. I find the thought of moving yet again quite wearying, but the dishwasher on the other end is definitely helping. If I haven't mentioned it, the reason we're moving is because our current house - as much as we love it - is two streets over into the wrong side of the tracks, i.e. outside of the school district for the immersion school we want to get the kids into. We also love their current school, but the tuition is substantial. As in "GDP of a small African nation" substantial. As in "worth moving for the sixth summer in a row in order to try to get the kids enrolled for September 2009" substantial. So let the box packing begin!