Jason's Untimely Thoughts

Adelaide & Jack each went back to school last week.  By all indications, Adelaide is enjoying kindergarten thus far.  She’s got one new friend out of the class, a girl she talks about every day.  Then another ‘old’ friend in the other kindergarten class.  Am sure more friends are to come as time goes by.

Jack is back at CDC and enjoying that too.  He’s in the “Bee Class” again, which is good, but seems most of his friends have moved to the “Star Class”, or “Adelaide’s Class” in Jackese.  I’m wondering if I should investigate having him switch to that class too, after a whole one day’s experience this year.

I’ve posted photos from the first day here, for your viewing pleasure.

On a personal level, ugh.  Weekends are hard for me, when they should be fun.  Most of the reason they’re hard is exactly because they should be fun.  Almost nothing is fun.  Instead I try to find stuff the kids will enjoy or people for them to hang with that will be fun.  Seems like I’ve typed and griped about this before.

And I find myself having stupid thoughts about how it would simply be easier if Sarah was still around.  Not that I miss her or they miss her, but that it would be easier.  And of course I do miss her and they do miss her.  Not extra on weekends, because the missing is especially unpredictable, but it’s especially noticeable on weekends.  And so is the lack of fun that weekends should be.  And I have little hope that football or much else will change that soon.

The MU athletic department had their annual Xs & Os Clinic on Saturday, an event which Sarah had always shot.  I hear that they said nice things about Sarah and I know they sold some of her prints as part of their silent auction.  I’d love to hear more details from anyone that was in attendance.

Mpix.com is all new.  Mpix 2.0 they call it.  It won’t bother me at all when people stop using 2.0 as “it’s new”.  It looks great, though, I think, so you should all order a bunch of prints.  Looking at photos only on the computer is for losers.