Some new beginnings

I'm going to miss this view

Well, it was quite the summer.  And I can't believe it's been almost 3 months since I've posted anything.  Guess I spent a lot of time working on my tan!

The biggest news for me is that at the end of June I was offered a job!  It is full-time as an ESL instructional assistant at the elementary school where I worked a few years ago.  I credit my former (and now current) colleagues with a)telling me about the position opening up and b)putting in multiple good words for me with the principal.  I will always be grateful to them for their support!  It will be challenging since I have not worked in ESL before, but I'm looking forward to learning a new position.  This will be my first permanent job since I left USAirways 9 years ago!

In late July I got to take a SOLO trip to Martha's Vineyard.  Solo meaning no husband or child, just me.  I met up with my sisters and other family members for a beautiful week on an amazing island.  It was a fantastic trip!

Beautiful Martha's Vineyard

Ian had a six week summer school session that started in early July and ended the second week of August.  We spent a lot of afternoons playing in the pool, when the weather permitted.  It was one of the coolest and wettest summers I can remember.  Kung Fu Panda movies were his obsession, and he knows all the characters names and can do some great impressions of them.  Now I hope he can do an impression of a Sixth Grader because tomorrow he starts (dunh dunh duuuunh) Middle School!

Ian's new school

Yep, the little monkey who still looks like about a 3rd grader on a good day, will be attending our local middle school.  (BTW, what better name for a middle school than MOODY, ha ha!)  I have been mostly okay with it, but here I am the night before the big day and I am scared spitless.  Because while he is there, I will be here.....

My new workplace

And since my hours are 7:20 until 2:50, I won't be home to put him on the bus.  I have almost always managed to be home to send him off to school, so this is a big deal....mostly to me.  I know it will work out but I admit I have some guilt.  At least our schools are very close to home and Rob is available until his classes late in the afternoon.

So, goodbye summer 2013.  You gave me plenty of happy memories to get me through what promises to be a busy and challenging year!