Our first day back at school

Yesterday was our first day of school. Don't they look excited? Claire did REALLY well. And Nathan, well, he's an 11 yr. old boy...what can I say? He grumped and complained, but nothing out of the ordinary for him!

We even took a little field trip to the pool on our first day back! Not many kids can say that! The kids had pool passes from the summer reading club at the library and they were only good on Mon, Tue, and Thu. Well, its been raining for the past 2 weeks so we never went during our summer like I had planned. So, we went the first day of school!

All was well until my husband called me at 5:00 and said he car quit! He works an hour away!!! Luckily, I didn't have to go get him. He had it towed back to our mechanic here in town so I just had to pick him up there. Of course, with his car in the shop, he has mine. So, I'm stuck at home today and Claire had to miss gymnastics. And who knows how much $$$ that tow is going to cost! Mondays...why are they so unkind to me????

It was a dark and stormy night...

It was a dark and stormy night last night and today is more of the same! We got some big thunderstorms last night. We got an inch of rain in less than an hour.

This is how the sky looked right before it started raining...

I thought that they were over when we went to bed, but more woke me up around 3:30 am. And there were more to come!

Ok, Three things about me...

1. I don't drive in Dallas

2. I don't usually go out when it rains.

3. I don't drive in rush hour traffic.

Well, this morning I drove to Dallas in rush hour traffic in the rain! Claire had an appointment at Scottish Rite at 8:45 am. We had her tested for dyslexia. (Found out today she doesn't have it so that is a relief.) The weather was just awful though. And to top it all off we had to park on the roof of the parking garage! I got soaked running from the parking lot to the elevators. (I had dropped the kids off under the sheltered elevators.)

When we got home it looked like it hadn't rained at the house. The pavement was all dry. Right after we got home it started raining again. We got about an inch and a half in less than an hour! Here is our street about 11:30 this morning.

I think I might need to build an ark!

Computer problems

Well, its Monday! For me, that means something is going to go wrong! Today it is my computer. It has been really slow lately, but this morning it keeps giving me error messages when I try to read blogs. I read half of the post, a message comes up and then it takes away the blog completely and says it is unable to open it....even though it was just open! Arggggh! Hopefully tech support (hubby) can fix it tonight.

And my mouse is messed up too. It won't scroll right. Very aggravating! I think I'm going to replace it with a wireless one. Anyone have a wireless mouse? If so, I'd love to hear your opinion on it.