We had five weddings, which was actually quite fun! It was fun to see so many family and friends. We had a Brinton reunion one afternoon/evening, had friends for dinner and got together with friends for end-of-summer swims. Adele got a little pierce at the top of her ear (since she doesn't wear earrings on her lower lobes).
We served the homeless one Saturday.
Geoff and I teach Sunday School to the 12-14-year-olds (which we LOVE). We had them over one Sunday afternoon to learn some Family History skills (and enjoy homemade ice cream).
Those that could make it then took the names they found to the temple later in the week.
Adele and I took a lettering class at Paper Source.
Adele spent weeks trying to figure out whether she wanted to go back to her old school, homeschool, or do something completely new. We explored every option, and combination of options, we could come up with, but she settled on taking core classes at her old school, and doing a few classes at home. I'll write more about her self-created year later, but let's just say she decided the night before school started!
Ceci is going to one more year at the Waldorf school. There were the typical back-to-school nights, registration, paper work, working out carpools, adjustments to waking up early and focusing all day, and everything else that somehow makes those weeks around school starting just a little more nuts.
Meanwhile, Tennie was getting ready to move out. We took bag loads of stuff to DI, we went to dozens of stores trying to find just the right things for her dorm or wardrobe, we made lists of things to do and slowly made our way through them. I was surprised how much there was to do to get a child out on their own! But we did it! She is settled in, making new friends, feeling a little culture shock because "everyone looks the same" and looking forward to her classes.
During all of this Tennie lost our second set of Fiat keys (she lost the first long ago). That left us with only one car to get everyone where they needed to go. I spent an insane amount of time in the car driving people places. Our keyless Fiat happens to be parked in our convenient parking spot, which left us to do our normal parking in the spot as far from our elevator as possible. Nice.
Geoff has been eyeing Vespas so he has a way to get to work. And then we found out our only car needs over $6000 in repairs. So we haven't had our best travel/car couple of weeks.
Geoff has spent dozens of hours getting Adele's driving hours in. She's getting closer to a license. Happy day!!!
And all along I've been decluttering cupboards and closets, telling Geoff we either need to get rid of a good chunk of our stuff or move to a bigger house. We both prefer the latter. As a result our house is a constant mess! This doesn't bring out my best self, but we ARE making some good progress.
It was a FULL and memorable summer.
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