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The boys started school yesterday. Zack had a great day, no problems. Petey, as expected, had a much harder time understanding the school routine. He's at a disadvantage from the other kids his age, having missed public school kindergarten. However, he seems to have an awesome teacher (if I can go by my first impressions) and I think she will be willing to work with us to help him learn how to act in school. We've been exchanging emails, which I'll put behind the cut for anyone who's interested.

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He didn't even mention the crying-lost incident to me. What he tells me is stuff like a kid in his class wore the same shirt today that he wore yesterday. I went to the library today and checked out some self-help parenting books. Even while I know I will read them and try and implement some ideas, I'm thinking to myself "what makes these people any more qualified than the next person when it comes to parenting?" I wish there was some perfect guide. One of the books is called "My Quirky Child." The title caught my attention, I don't know if it will be helpful...I would use quirky to describe Petey, though.

Josh and I are enjoying our time together. Yesterday we went to McDonalds together (a mistake it turned out because all the high school kids were there taking off-campus lunch. Apparently they don't care that they are sitting next to a 3 year old kid, they going to say f--- as much as they want...which is practically every other word.), the park, Wal-Mart and to get him a haircut. We also took a nap together. It was such a laid back, do what we want day. I loved it, and so did he. Today was more of a organize-this-messy-house day.

Lastly, Chris taught his first day of class today. He was nervous, but I must say he looked good in his professorial attire (no tweed jackets with elbow patches for my man!) Still no luck on the car search. I think we're taking a couple weeks off. That's it.

Book Meme

I've been tagged by jediwonderboy. Yay!


A Book Meme, by Chadd

1. Total number of Books I Own

Hmmm, I'll estimate about 500. More than half of these are Chris' books and half of those I could never read because they are in Chinese. I don't usually keep my books. I either sell them or give them away. Also, I tend not to buy books in the first place. I'd much rather hit the library. We move so often that books just get heavy to tote around from state to state (and country to country!)

2. The Last Book I Bought
"The Cuban Missle Crisis" for class. Last book I bought for leisure was "Good Grief" by Lolly Winston. It was pure brain candy. I'm frankly a bit embarrassed to put it down as the last book I bought :)

3. The Last Book I Read
The official last book I read was "The Adventures of a Nose", which is a kids book. The last adult book I read was "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood. It is one of my science fiction class assigned books, but I read it before the semester because it looked so good. I was right, it was an amazing piece of sci-fi genius.

4. Five Books That Mean A Lot To Me

Ack, this is always a hard question for me to answer. It changes so often.

"The Princess Bride" because I read it so often that it fell apart.
"The Island of the Blue Dolphin" because it was my favorite book as a pre-teen.
"Ramona the Pest" because it was the first chapter book I ever read. I was immediately smitten with a love of reading.
"Pride and Prejudice"...do I really need to explain this one?
"The Book of Mormon" because my religious beliefs are such a huge part of who I am.

I'll tag

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