We have completed the first week of full school days for both kids. Tuesday was the first day of school. Missy has the same teacher Alex did last year, which we were hoping for, and Alex also has the teacher we were hoping he'd get. I stayed home for a couple hours in the morning to help get them up and off, but I wasn't really needed as they were both too excited. We were pretty early at the bus stop. Alex especially has been looking forward to school starting for weeks. Missy has been excited too. Big first grader. Alex's friend Luke wasn't there (out sick) for the first couple days, which really disappointed Alex, but he got by. Both of them loved it. Beth managed to fall down while walking to the bus stop to get them in the afternoon and took all the skin off one knee. But she's been enjoying the new time off she's been having. Thursday we got corn, something like 8 dozen this time, and she spent all day shucking and putting it up and freezing it. We'll eat it all year long, we still have several bags left from last year. Friday night was a daddy night, the kids and I stayed home while Beth had some kind of womenfolk shopping party or other. Alex's nose was so stuffy he didn't even like the pizza we got. Saturday was a date night for Beth and me, but no movies we wanted to see were playing so we just went to Goshen to get wings and play trivia at BW3. We also went there because they have free Wi-Fi and I needed to log on for the fantasy football draft for the league I'm in with Laura and Thomas. Beth wasn't crazy about being ignored for 45 minutes on a date but hey, fantasy football! I got Peyton Manning and Frank Gore and Miles Austin so I should be good to go. Hope so, anyway. Sunday we all went geocaching with a bunch of friends from church at Potawatomi Wildlife Park. The group was really too big for it, though, and we wound up getting only 4 and trying really hard to keep the kids under control. The board of directors for the park just happened to be having a meeting/picnic as we got to one site, and we met 'Gunpowder' the director of the park who placed all the caches. Good time, but smaller crowd next time.