Summer's winding down

A week from today all three kids will be at school! (Actually, Nathanael starts a week from yesterday.)

Nathanael's bus will pick him up at 7:04 in the morning. That's a major change, considering he used to wake up at 7:30 and leave for school around 8:40.

Tonight there's a parent orientation at the Jr. High School, for those of us who are new to having 7th graders. Bless Mary's heart, she's driving up from Loveland to watch the boys so I can go. John has a conference call.

It was so chilly last night (in the 50's) that I closed the bedroom windows. (It was either that or turn off both fans that were blowing on the bed, one of which stood right in front of the window and had an icy blast pointed right at us. John's idea of Heaven, but he was already asleep. I figured he'd miss the beloved fans more than the open windows if he woke up.)

The kids watched the movie "Nim's Island" last night (and two of them watched it again this morning). It's cute. It's got enough absurdity in it to make it a definite "kid flick," but not enough absurdity to ruin it for the adults. Jodie Foster was wonderful, and Abigail Breslin did a great job. Gerard Butler was good too. Ok, enough pretending to be Roger Ebert...