School starts

Ok....a week after I bragged about enjoying summer, I was done. Yeah 3 days before the school started I was actually ready. They started on Thursday and today is actually just the 3rd day of school, I don't know what's gonna happen with a full week of school for my 4 years old. The heat is not helping either, my son came home tired, and all that he wants is playing with his toys. Now, I have another challenge, homework, yeah it's not due until Friday, but I would like him to do it everyday so it won't be too much for him in one day. I was so nervous, after some snacks and play a little bit, I asked him to go up and do his homework, he looked me and said "I'm very tired". In the beginning he scared the heck out of me, he looked like he didn't know anything, I was shaking, I was scared, I'm thinking too myself, this is why all the other parents hold their kids for another year when they are too young. But somehow he slowly picked up and even gave me a smile and said "Are you sure I only need to color the flowers? not the vase?" wow....I was a happy clam again, let's see what's gonna happen tomorrow and the rest of the week, I'm still crossing my fingers that everything 's going smooth. Happy Monday!!!!

He posed after he's done with homework.

Summer party

So, actually I planned this party in the beginning of the school vacation, but my daughter got sick, with fever and all, so I didn't have a chance to re invite the friends until a couple of week ago. I promised my daughter and her little brother that it will be a party, so I started to browse around, looking for some free printable tags, labels and some ideas for food and decoration (I found a lot from www.partyblog.mygrafico). Printed all the freebies, cut, glue and stick. These are what I gathered, the kids had fun swimming, the moms were basically chit chating and was enjoying one of the dish that one of the mom brought. It was a persian rice dish with yogurt and pickles.

Learn something from the DS

We've never been a big fan of those juice stores, never got tempted to try it. But once my kids had a sleepover at our friend's house and she brought them to Juice it up. My son had this drink called Melon madness. Since then he's longing for that drink again, so I brought him to Jamba juice the closest one we have in our area, and I asked for melon madness. Nope, nothing like that, he settled with watermelon and strawberry, he loves it. I was craving for some sweet that time, so ordered their blueberry pomegranate yogurt with almond on top...yuummmmm.....not sweet at all, crunchy and the frozen blueberries were an extra surprise. Since then we all are hooked, we came back 2 more time to Jamba Juice. I guess we all can learn from the youngest member of the family ;)

Summer

I can't believe I say this, but I'm kind of hesitate to start the new school year. Summer's been good, getting up late, staying up late, take everything easy, enjoying the freebies, giving excuse on anything that it is summer anyway ;)
My boy is going to be in kindergarten this fall, and his school just starts the new full day kindergarten instead of the split am/pm. I should be happy, I will have the day to myself everyday, but yet I'm not looking forward to that. Maybe once they start and I get into the sync of the routine, I will say why do I bother with summer.....

Sad news

Just got a text from close friend that one of our dearest friend's husband was just diagnosed with liver cancer. I'm sad and scared to hear that. I'm worried about my own family, sometimes just one single news all that you need to appreciate your family. Our thought and prayer for her family.