I am sitting in our first district-wide in-service this morning. We have returned to our home for a new year with students. We got here after traveling from Alabama to Alaska. What a trip! Alice proved to be an excellent traveler, but I think she is still a little jet-lagged at this point. I think we all are. Well, maybe not the dogs...
The summer was hectic and characterized by movement. We spent the first month in a rental house, which gave us a little stability and meant that things were actually put away in drawers. All bets were off as of June 30. We spent a week staying in our old house, which we sold and closed on, a week with my parents, and two and a half weeks with my in laws. The last involved driving from Michigan to Alabama and back to the Chicago area, from which we departed to Alaska. I think that we were all pretty tired of living out of suitcases (or totes and space saver bags and kennels) by the end of it.
We knew that the summer would be an experiment. We learned that we want a little more stability for next year. We plan to stay in one place for the summer, in the hopes that it will give Alice some more time to play at the park and the beach. We will still go back, because we want her to spend time with her family in Michigan, as well as in Alaska.
Our lifestyle will shift here, as well. We are buying a used car, so that Alice can go to appointments and we can shop for groceries in Bethel more easily. I hope to have it by the time that we go to Bethel for the district wide in-services after Labor Day, so that we can drive ourselves around town.
For years, we have lived in two worlds. We seem to be shifting to a different model. We will see how that works out in the future.
Glad you are back and blogging again. Sounds like summer was an adventure with a little one in tow. Have a great school year.
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