The Stevenson Story

We started September with a bang- Jack started school, I started teaching my music classes and we had a yardsale. Jack on his first day of Kindergarten! Eric and Mrs. McMahon- Jack's teacher Me taking a quick rest between teaching classes and being a mom. Our yard sale went better than I expected.  We sold lots of things to help clean out our garage and house, and got everything much more organized.  Organization = calmness and happiness. Avey started joyschool with her friends.  I started the first teaching rotation and it was great!  Avey LOVES her class and friends in the class.  I finally am figuring out how to work with Avey's cute curly hair sometimes.  I did pigtails with it this day.  Jack wanted his own picture- I love this smile! Ellie learned how to pull herself up, and so now this is how I see her all day long.  The only time I am grateful we have carpet in our kitchen. We had some...

First off, I know I say this every year, but I LOVE THE FALL!  It seriously makes me incredibly happy every single year.  And September always feels like fall to me, schedules get back into place, it's usually not crazy hot anymore, and the sun starts going to bed a little earlier every day.  Happiness and pure joy. But, this post is about August, so here we are.  August was a busy month.  I started getting ready for my music classes to start, we were dejunking to get ready for a yard sale we just had this past weekend, my cute parents and grandma came to visit, we all got strep, Eric's parents were going to visit the next weekend, and then his grandma took a turn for the worse and we ended up going to Utah to see her, rather than them coming here.  It was so interesting, because weeks before this happened, we had some friends coming in from Massachusetts to Utah, and Eric kept asking if he could go out to see them.  And I kept telling him his parent...