Back to school..

The kids and I went back to school on Monday and have immediately slipped back into our school year craziness.  I just updated my weekly wipe board (or is it white board?) calendar and sighed...two afternoons of cross country practice (The Girl), a "necessary" library trip by Friday to pick up requested books (that I don't have time to read?), two back to school nights (The Boy's and mine), possible youth group meeting for The Girl, a couple of hours of time scheduled for me to help with the already growing pile of lost and found at the kids' school.....and I have a large box of "local" peaches in the kitchen that need to be dealt with soon--luckily the kids are doing their part to eat them.  I did (finally) make it to the grocery store to stock the pantry shelves, so at least we have food to prepare and I don't have to suggest popcorn as a Wednesday night meal.  It has been a good start to the year, busy, but good.

I am excited though...Diane Mott Davidson is speaking at our local library this Friday--I've read a lot of her books in the past, although not many in the past few years.  She sets most of her books in the Denver area--which makes it fun to figure out what real place she is thinking of when she creates a fictional town/store/location.  I just looked at her book list and discovered that I have no idea which book to start with...I suppose I'll have to just start the series over again?