Somehow the usual Happy Fall skip hit a frenetic Holiday grind which I don't see slowing down until February. We didn't make it to a pumpkin patch this year, instead relying on Safeway pumpkins and two pumpkins that came home from Kindergarten. We did do our annual pumpkin pancake breakfast in Woodside, but opted not to venture further into Half Moon Bay (where we would have hit the pumpkin patch circuit) because it was the weekend of the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin festival. We went last year, and it just isn't worth the headache of the crowds.
By the time Halloween rolled around last Sunday we couldn't believe it had crept up so quickly. We carved the pumpkins and bought candy Halloween day. The boys still had oodles of fun.
We did make other choices that consumed our time...Xander plays soccer every Saturday through Thanksgiving week. Caleb is still in pre-hockey at Sharks Ice - so Saturday before 12 pm is booked. ...Jonathan and I got to go to the World Series and cheer on our San Francisco Giants, we spent a Sunday evening in San Francisco to celebrate our anniversary, and we went to the Gorillaz concert in Oakland... We also planned our East Coast Thanksgiving trip to DC and New York -- which will include the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade.
It turns out that the school age years are harder than I thought it would be. The weekly Kindergarten homework eats up time. It is good time, one-on-one with Xander, but it still takes away from other fun activities. Xander is starting to read, color in the lines, write and do basic math. Then there is the obligatory school activities, like back to school night, PTA meetings and the Harvest Festival, which we really should and do work into our already overbooked schedule.
Then there were things beyond our control like both boys getting sick (three weeks apart) and late nights with a feverish boy, but thus is life.
So now, I'm looking at the next two weeks before our trip to the East Coast and wondering how we're going to get it all done, but still keep it fun. We have our three-month eye appointment for Xander, his parent-teacher conference, and school is closed this Thursday and Friday (Thursday our preschool daycare has agreed to take Xander, and Friday he will be in school aftercare - they are going to the Children's Discovery Museum). Jonathan and I also both have big projects for work due ... so we'll have to balance, balance, balance. And I haven't started Holiday shopping yet. Yikes!
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