Miser Family update: education edition

Life is rich and full in the Miser Family household these days; the past week has been particularly plentiful in school and education.

The week kicked off with very back-to-school-like weather; temps dropped about 30 degrees, from 100 to 70's.   On Sunday evening last, a bunch of my kids and their escorts came over for dinner, and we made some awesome, cheerful signs to celebrate Monday's first day of public school.

What color is N-son's construction t-shirt?

I hung these on our front porch for kids and parents to see as they walked by.  I love having a front porch!

N-son was home from school on break this past week, but we learned some good stuff together in spite of it (we read a book called "Organizing Solutions for people with ADHD".  I wish I'd read this 15 or so years ago; I'd recommend it!  I have to say, his room was in much better shape this week than it's been on past visits.   

J-son finished his job and is re-tooling for the next one.  Unfortunately, his foster mom (whom he's living with) had some yucky health issues; I'm glad to see that he's stepping up and helping around the home while she's recovering.  

I started classes -- I've got three of them this semester, all pretty much full up. So far, I really like my students, which is good, because there are a lot of them to like!  And A-child started Preschool again.  I got to see her one more evening, quite spur of the moment, when K-daughter had to go to urgent care to get her hand stitched up (one stitch, so scary but not too bad).   They've recovered so well they went camping this weekend.  

Back to school -- and so excited!

Here's something else I learned: there are swaths of people in the world who see colors very differently.  My dad and nephew are red-green color blind; I'm not talking about that.  I mean that over the decades that I've been married to my guy, we've had several disagreements about colors.  He had a car that he (and N-son, and the car maker) called "green", but my daughters and I all saw it as "gray".   There are a bunch of other small things like that.

Well, there's a bike jacket I wear and a set of construction t-shirts that N-son wears that I would swear up-and-down are yellow:  highlighter yellow.  I-daughter and L-daughter totally agree with me.  But N-son, and my husband, and a couple of other people I've talked to, call those things "highlighter green".  I am coming to realize that this isn't just a difference of opinion or semantics; it's truly a difference in how our eyes process information.  Go figure

Speaking of L-daughter, she breezed into town at the end of the week, and got to spend quality time with Prewash.  (Prewash refused to take sides in the yellow-green debates, in case you're wondering).   L-daughter is looking great, and I'm glad to have her in the yellow camp.

And that's the news from our family, which continues to be wealthy in our adventures.  May you and yours be similarly prosperous.