1 week down, 11 to go...

Justin has been in Utah for a week now and we have been without a dad for a week too. Yesterday when Justin called and talked to Dylan, Dylan said he had forgotten he had a dad until he saw a picture of him on the refrigerator that morning. It made Justin sad but I thought it was funny. Dylan says funny things. He didn't really forget he just has been too busy to remember that Justin is gone. Emma said it is like he is just playing tennis every night. We actually have had a great week. We were gone every night except Monday so there really hasn't been much time to think about Justin being gone. Busy, Busy, Busy. This week will be no exception. I start Pre-K tomorrow and my class has 16 3 year olds...about 5 have turned 3 within the last 2 months. They are young, I am not sure what were are giong to do. Lots of playdough and stringing beads. Tactile stuff. I am not sure how much of the other things they will be interested in. It is a little scary for me since last year our classes were combined ages 3-5, so if you had a few three year olds in the class and they weren't interested in the activity they would just kinda do their own thing. But with them all being so young it will be interesting. Good thing it is only 2 days a week. The kids are doing well in school...Emma is having a hard time getting her homework done. Tonight as I was putting them to bed she said she forgot to do it. Maybe I am a bad mom but I can't remember to remind her. I have told her that this is her responsibility. I remind her when she gets home from school but Friday she said she would do it over the weekend...mistake. Anyway if they don't have it for school they get detention. This scares her to death. I said to her what if I can't come get you from detention...if I am working. Oh...tax payers dollars at work...there is a special bus that takes all the detention kids home. No wonder my property taxes are 3.5% aarrghhh! All in all we doing fine without Justin. We miss him and hope that he does a great job with this assignment. We hope that the loud refrigerator in his hotel will not keep him awake anymore. We hope he gets his fill of nature in case they don't offer him a permanent position. We also hope that he and we will be safe will he is away!