The girls have been in school for five days now. They are doing great. I'm getting used to it. I'm volunteering a couple times this week at lunch to help out as another set of hands in the cafeteria. Life is starting to feel a little more normal than last week.
On a related note, I turned in paperwork to substitute teach at the girls' school. For those of you who don't know, I taught elementary school for 8 years before I had Lily and I still have a valid teaching license (actually I just renewed it). I'm already getting lots of questions about what I'm open to: would I do maternity leaves, etc? Whoa. Lots to think about.
We hit the State Fair on Sunday, which is a favorite thing for us. I grew up going to the Fair every year, so I have a love for it. This day the weather was perfect so it was packed. Unfortunately, I got sunburned. No one else in our family did, but I got fried. I went for a week in the Caribbean and didn't come home burned, but a couple hours at the Fair and I come home sunburned. On the flip side, I'm glad the girls don't have my skin.
From the top of the Ferris Wheel, which is a "must ride" every year. Can you ride it and NOT take pictures at the top?
The girls, sharing a snow cone/shaved ice (below). They chose 2 flavors, one of which was Tiger's Blood, which just sounds disgusting but apparently its just strawberry and watermelon flavor mixed- according to Google. We hit a lot of those necessary foods this visit. Prior to this trip, for some reason the girls had never had a Fair Elephant Ear! Check that one off the list. Lily, pickiest eater ever, didn't want any, but Abby had some. We also had a Lemon Shakeup, hit the Dairy Barn, bought some Salt Water Taffy, had fresh cut potato chips...
The girls and I have been watching So You Think You Can Dance this season and supporting a local dancer, Valerie Rockey. She is from around us, and attended the same dance studio that Abby attended from age 3-6. She has made the Top 10, and is really amazing. All of our votes go to her and it has been fun to cheer her on.
