Another week gone by in October

We are nearly half-way through October.  I'm especially excited about tomorrow's weather as the high may not make it out of the 50's.  My kind of weather!  I can't complain to much though, as it's been warmer during the days than I would prefer, but very cool overnight and no humidity at all.  I'm really ready to wear long-sleeved shirts though.

Last weekend we had a lovely dinner with the kids, my mom, and even my sister joined us.  We were at one of our favorite restaurants where they serve incredible loaded fries.  Andrew insisted on a burger, but the rest of us all ate the fries...and even ordered extras!  It was nice to have some time all together.

Catherine is really enjoying her new job, and even has a second job!  She has a significant amount of debt and is beginning to understand the consequences of her decisions.  It's been really nice having her with us during the week and it's been helpful.  She appreciates that she still gets to spend her weekends in her apartment, but this is all temporary.  She understands when her lease is up next summer that she'll be moving in with us until she can really get back on her feet financially.

We have made it through the fall sports season.  It wasn't quite as bad as previous years, except for last week.  Andrew had to work every single evening.  The last two weeks have also been really, really hard at my job.  We had a lot of staff illness and it really took a toll.  I was the only admin working two of those days, and the Head was out pretty much all week.  That made it really challenging to be able to help in classrooms when I was the only one in the office, and there were times I just wasn't sure how we were going to cover everything.  We did though, and thank goodness we had Friday off school!  I spent Thursday night at an AirBnB with our good friend who also had Friday off. 

I can't lie, it's been hard to write this year.  My stories aren't very exciting or entertaining, and my kids' stories are their stories, not mine.  And it's been a really hard year dealing with some things.  I still enjoying re-reading some of the memories I've written here, and hopefully I'll be motivated to be better at recording the future memories!