I blinked and it was gone.

I started teaching again yesterday.  Yup.  My maternity leave is officially over.  Seriously, I think I blinked and it was gone.

It actually went really well–except it’s going to take a few days for the kids to get back into the groove of me teaching again.  It means they have to get used to playing in a more confined space and need to be quieter.  Plus Tim has the added difficulty of trying to keep Maddie out of trouble and away from Levi.  It’s definitely going to keep him on his toes!

We decided that it would be too much to ask a nanny to come this fall, so Tim is going to come home just a smidgen early for the next couple of weeks.  It just seemed like to much to ask a teenager to wrangle 4 kids… one of those being an active toddler and another being an unpredictable one month old!

Last week I didn’t post anything because I was busy lamenting the fact that it was my last week off.  🙂  Yup.  So instead of being productive, I savored the feeling of being able to just sit around and do nothing.  Well, kind of.  I mean we still had to get some things done… I got a hair cut,  tried out a new grocery service at WalMart (more on that later), taught the kids how to play Mancala, mowed the lawn, and we even had our family pictures taken.  But I didn’t do a good job of keeping up wit h the house–especially the laundry, so now I’m dealing with piles and piles of clothes this week…

But before I go here’s a picture of Levi from this past week.  He’s officially one month old. Whoo hoo!  (Notice his shirt says, “Nap like a BOSS” hehe!)