MY BOGGY BLOG: find your way through the murk

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Where has August gone? Where has summer gone? We are here, on the
verge of September and back-to-school, and I'm in one of those weird
time warps because the summer has seemed so long and so short, all at
the same time. The kids and I went to the school open house last week,
met and talked to teachers and saw classrooms, and it was like we had
never had a break. But now all the kids are older and noticeably
taller. And some teachers are gone or have changed positions... change
is hard!

The last two weeks were my big taste of Single Parent Life. DH was
gone to El Paso on a business trip, so it was 11 days and 11 nights of
Only Mom. It was hard because there was no one to "take over" when I
needed to leave or have a break. But it was good because I learned
that I can do it; I didn't do it perfectly or even with a lot of
sanity, but I did it. And I was so happy to see DH walk in the door on
Friday-- for many reasons!

Today we went back to the State Fair, since DH wasn't with when we
went last time. It was good to go again-- still a bit too much whining
about when we would visit the arcades by youngest DS, and too much
whining about going home by DD as the afternoon wore on. We ate even
more fried foods, the boys went into a haunted house based on The
Mummy, walked through the technology, art and agriculture buildings,
walked through the International Bazaar when it wasn't too busy (I
hadn't been there in years, and there was more cool stuff there than I
realized), let the kids finish off their ride tickets at The Midway.
One of my favorite stops was seeing many brand new baby animals at the
new animal birthing center-- piglets and cows and lambs and ducks and
rabits (etc.) all just a few hours or days old. I stood by older DS as
we waited to pet baby lambs-- he has always had an extra vibe where
animals are concerned, very interested and nurturing with them. We
both petted a mother cow who licked us with a warm wet tongue that
felt amazingly like sandpaper.

Tomorrow we really have to get our act together and gather up school
supplies and make sure there are some clean clothes to wear... school
starts on Tuesday!