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This poor little blog, not getting much attention from me. We've been busy getting back into a routine, although I'm realizing my lack of household scheduling is beginning to take its toll on all of us. We're definitely at the stage where we can't just 'wing it' anymore. Time for a shakedown! Here's a good opportunity to share about my friend Rachel Anne @ Home Sanctuary. She's got some great ideas, motivation and inspiration for ways to help our homes be a sanctuary for family and friends. I'm proud to be a Company Girl with her and about 200 others.

But just to make things more exciting, we're gearing up for our little holiday in Prince Rupert. 4 sleeps, and the next one is fast approaching. True to my way of doing things when visiting a town, I'm booking up my visits and playdates. For fear of not seeing everyone that I really want to see, I'm doing things in advance. Looking at the calendar now, I'm realizing we could have stayed one more day. Ah well. It'll be great. Max will even get to go to preschool, thanks Rowena! Paul will be staying home, working overtime to pay for our flight (as cheap as it was). In truth, it's a great chance for him to get caught up on projects that have been on the back burner while he tends to family responsibilities.

The big thing I've been thinking about these past few weeks is what to do with Max's Kindergarten registration. We don't have to make a final decision until next January, but now is the time to decide what to do for his second year of preschool. The options are Tues/Thurs afternoons (I'm not really jazzed about afternoons), Mon/Wed afternoons (that would be in the afternoon again), and Mon/Wed/Fri mornings. This is in the morning. Clearly. It's also more $$$ each month. What to do, what to do. I really like having his class in the morning as it gets our day going. I imagine school in the afternoons to be tricky as a rough morning at home could make for a tiring and stressful day at school. This morning I went to check out some Kindergarten options, as my decision for year 2 of preschool may be affected by that. Both of the schools we're considering have K classes every day, either morning or afternoon. For some time now we've been considering the French Immersion program. Having talked to parents of French Immersion kids, and talking to a few friends who went that route, it's definitely something we may pursue. One factor we've been told about it is that the class sizes are usually smaller. Today I learned that is not so, at least at the school we would enroll him in here. So ... former students, parents, grandparents - have you had any experience with French Immersion? Would you recommend or discourage it?I have yet to read over the brochures I picked up today. Now that I know Kindergarten will likely be every day (I would choose mornings), I would like to keep him in a morning preschool class.

The other school I visited was King Traditional Elementary School. I am impressed by what I have read and heard so far about this school. (There is also a Middle and High Traditional School here.) I have the Parent Handbook to review and we need to discuss it further.

But there will be no discussing tonight. Only sleeping. Marty fell asleep on the couch at about 6:00 and hasn't peeped since. We really hope he sleeps till 7am!

Here are my boys. Still cute.
These ones are still cute too.Paul and some of his best buds - Dan, Russ, Scott

My apologies for more words than pictures lately. I still need to get a proper, sit-down, get it figured out, tutorial on our new set-up with an external hard drive and a new version of iPhoto. (iLife '08 - for those who know what I'm talking about.)