August 29, 2012
First Day of School
Good morning! A bit of first-day-of-school chaos today. Abby starts high school for the first time. The twins start middle school for the first time. Abby took the bus, but I dropped the twins off myself. Timothy opted to take the bus today.
Claire has today off. She went with Michelle to morning Mass and then with her to the Merrimack Y. Michelle was asked to sub instruct a Step class this morning, because how busy would she be on the first day of school, right?! ;-]
After I dropped the boys off, I head down to Boxborough, listening to the rest of yesterday's podcast of The Good Fight, where they discussed St. Gianna and the recent writings of Cardinal Burke. It was a gorgeous morning for a drive, as it often seems to be those first few weeks of school before autumn gets in high gear.
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Left work a bit early. Listened to St. Augustine on the drive north. Went straight to Golds for tonight's Step Circuit class. I'm glad they finally brought back an evening hour-long class again. They've been a bit too focused on trendy, marketing-approved classes like RIPPED and BodyPump.
Was surprised that it was only the boys at home when I returned from Golds. Abby had band practice from 5 to 8. Already on her first day of school?! And Michelle had just dropped Claire off for a few hours of work to close Subway.
After dinner I knew I'd be up late to take Claire home from work. Got "the call" a few minutes ago. I joked with Claire that she and her co-workers must be proud that their new endorsement guy, Apolo Anton Ohno, is going to be on ABC's “Dancing with the Stars” next month.
“We instruct you, brothers and sisters,
in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
to shun any brother
who walks in a disorderly way
and not according to the tradition they received from us.” — 2 Thessalonians 3