Marriage

Kent is very concerned about marriage. He asks who he is going to marry all the time. The conversation usually starts out with questions about why he can't marry his brother.

"Mom, are you SURE I can't marry Cohen?"

"Yes honey, I am very sure you can't marry Cohen"

Then he discusses who he might marry. Sometimes he thinks it will be his friend Abby. Sometimes he thinks it will be his other friend Lauren. He told Pete this morning, "(Sigh) there's just so many girls to choose from!" He cracks me up! I keep assuring him that he really doesn't need to decide this now, but he keeps asking me when, WHEN. So, today I gave him a deadline. I let him know that people do not decide who they are going to marry till they are in college. That stopped the questions for a few minutes. Then he responded, "Mommy, if I marry Lauren, then she will have to leave her family and move in with us." I let him know that he would probably move out when he gets married, because married people like to live in their own houses. He completely freaked out saying, "Mommy, I don't EVER want to move out of our house!

I hope he always feels this way! I told him that he could live with me as long as he wanted it was all smiles again.

First Day of School

Thursday was Kent and my first day of school! I love the beginning of school. While many parents dread this day, I love the first day of school. I guess that is good since I have been going to a school every single year of my life since I started preschool. Seriously. I love the structure of school, a set schedule, new supplies, rules that are followed, lunch at the same time everyday...made for me, even! Someone else even cleans my room each afternoon. Don't get me wrong, my love of the beginning of school does wane some, somewhere around faculty meetings, grading piles of work, morning detentions, computing data... you get the picture.

I have been so excited for Kent to start school. Of course he has too. Every day this summer he asked if it was time to go to his new school. All he talks about are all the science projects that he wants to do. When Thursday finally came, we all woke up early for the big day, got ready and loaded ALL of our bags into the car. Pete and Kent headed out to his school and Cohen and I followed behind. We were all there to walk him to class and say goodbye. His teacher even emailed us halfway through the day to let us know how great of a day he was having. In the afternoon, Kent rode the bus home to my Mom's house where Pete and Mom were waiting for him at the bus stop. Pete said he was so excited to ride the bus and he had a huge smile on his face. We still haven't been able to get too many details from him about how school is going. He says he likes it, has not done any science projects yet, but the bus is great! If I try to ask anything too specific, he just responds with, "I don't remember!" We all love his teacher so far and the school nurse says that he has a big smile on his face every time she sees him. He even asked why we couln't go to school today, which is Saturday. Hopefully he will feel the same in ten years when he's fifteen!?!

A great day all around!