long week already

whew...
mike & i's first official week of school is a jumbled mess already. the high school principal committed suicide thursday evening, so our week is being pushed back...not a big deal to us, but the poor kids are going to be upside down from the get go. monday, we meet with grief counselors to learn how to field questions from the kids & in the afternoon those who need to will stay to talk to the grief counselors. mike and i are being released to attend payton's funeral. tuesday we will have all of monday's originally planned meetings & the evening open house. wednesday, instead of school starting as planned, we will have tuesday's originally planned meetings & then mike and I have a 'new employees' picnic that evening. the students will come thursday & friday for 1/2 a day (dismissal at 1:05). poor kiddos...what a mess.

mike & i close on our house in memphis at 2:00 on thursday--yay!! don't let anyone tell you that buying a house is easy...although our next one (hopefully building) will be easier than this time around because we won't be 'first-timers'. i'm glad we had this experience to practice on & am glad we made the decision we did, otherwise i'm afraid instead of joy we'd be feeling overwhelmed & uncertainty. okay...off here...mike says we need to get to lancaster & finish up cleaning so everything is ready to move into...when did he get so smart (& such a slave driver!). have a great, cool saturday.