Coping

As those of you who have lived with any sort of a teacher will know, September can be crazy. It can be hectic-but-fun crazy, or it can descend into a sort of madness that you ease out of sometime after Christmas. Our little family is carefully balancing on the brink of that difference, now that Josh is teaching his new course and submitting grant proposals, Justin is sort-of crawling, and Heather and the kids are trying to make the most of the beautiful fall weather before winter forces us indoors.

We've been spending a lot of time at parks lately. Enough time that Justin now knows not to eat sand, and Jamie has deemed some of the playgrounds 'boring'. Mommy gets to read and have a coffee, only having to leap to her feet once in a while to help Jamie negotiate a tricky climb, or extricate a stick from Justin's pudgy little paw.