Michigan | Table for Five

September 8, 2009 By Elizabeth

Today was the first day of school for the boys. Why so late? Michigan passed a law that school has to start after Labor Day to help with tourism. Although with this economy, I don’t know how many people really went up North this weekend. There were a LOT of garage sales around town.

I had no problem going to bed at 10:00 last night, even though that’s 3-4 hours earlier than I went to bed all summer. I had a throbbing headache in my right temple and I didn’t think I’d be able to fall asleep, but it only took me a few minutes and I was out. The alarm went off at 6:00, I jumped out of bed, and the boys were not only up, but dressed.

Ryan’s been a morning person since he was a preschooler. He started getting himself ready for school in First grade, and in 5th grade when he had to catch a bus at 6:50 AM, he rarely woke us up. We’d wake up when he slammed the door on his way out!

But Nathan is less of a morning person, today’s excitement notwithstanding. I was pleasantly surprised to find him up, dressed, and eating. They both packed their own lunches, and were out the door at 6:45. Since Kaitlyn wasn’t up, I turned on my computer to start clearing out the weekend’s emails. I’ve been very productive this morning!

I’m working really hard at getting caught up on all the reviews I want to post and giveaways I want to run, for two reasons. 1., because I don’t have the boys here to play with Kaitlyn, and I don’t want her watching tv ALL day. 2., we’re going to Great Wolf Lodge in Traverse City this Friday through Sunday, and although I’m taking my laptop, I’ll be using it to post photos from the trip. I don’t want to have to work on vacation!

So for the next three days, I’ll be working on reviews and giveaways here, on MomReviews, and on MomCooks. Watch Twitter for updates and links hey! how about some recent photos of my kids to wrap this post up!