Back to School

My apologies for the lack of pictures--we do have them, but our computer died sometime yesterday so I don't have a reliable way to upload them.

In other news, the kids are back in school full time now. The adjustment to first was a bit hard for Evelyn who was weepy at dinner for the first couple of days (just tired), but she seems to be fine now. Oliver has had the hardest time--he keeps asking where everyone is and wanting to see (and then see again) pictures of Andrew and Evelyn.

Dan and I both had meetings at the college this past week. (They were meetings. Enough said).

We also finally made plum jam out of our plums. The ones in the fridge faired pretty well while we were gone--the ones downstairs in the root celler not so well. Unless your preference is for slightly moldy, *definitely* fermenting (lots of liquid) plums. We still managed to get 14 pints from what we had. I also tried making a plum cobbler. It looked lovely, but it was so tart (even with a cup + of sugar) that it was nearly inedible.

This has also been the week that Oliver has refused to sleep. I'm not sure if he's still adjusting from our trip, where he got to sleep with us, but in the past week he has several times refused to sleep for hours at a time. This morning he woke up at 3 and though we diligently ignored him so he won't keep waking up in search of our company, he stayed awake until 6 when the other kids started getting up. I think his crib might be part of the problem--he hangs on the side and uses that to prop himself upright even when he's so tired he's falling asleep standing up (and then, of course, wakes himself up again). Since we're already not getting sleep, we've decided to try switching to the toddler bed now (at least then he can't prop himself up).

Wish us luck.