One week until school starts.

I can't believe Evan will be starting kindergarten a week from Monday! It's crazy. My little guy has grown up so fast! I hope he likes it. I'm sure he will...he loved preschool. I'm pretty confident that he's beyond prepared, too. He has known how to read for over a year, so that gives him a pretty good head start. He's good at writing letters and numbers, too. I don't know exactly what's "normal" for a kid his age, but his preschool teacher told me he was advanced. He's a really smart kid. I'm proud of him. I'm lucky to have such a sweet, fun, smart, funny, friendly, loving kid. I couldn't ask for a better son. He means the world to me. It's just so crazy to me that he's so grown up now. I mean, kids in kindergarten aren't that big and grown up, but he's not a tiny little kid anymore. I'm just amazed at how grown up he seems at times.

B starts school a week from Monday as well. It's his senior year of high school. He decided to switch schools, so that he would be in a new environment and be able to stay away from certain groups of people. He made that decision on his own. His old high school is pretty close to us, but there's one a little closer, and he's going to be going to that one. Being the new kid can be a bit scary and stressful, but he insisted that it's what he wants to do. He said he wants a fresh start. I admire him for that, and I think it will be good for him. He's excited for school to start, but understandably a little nervous. Yesterday I took him shopping to get some new clothes for the new school year and a bunch of school supplies. He told me his parents had never really done that for him before. Not because of money issues, but because they just didn't do things like take him school shopping. My mom always did that with us, so I wanted to do the same for him. I'm really glad that I'm able to do things like that for B. He's always so thankful for everything, too. He's such a nice, cool kid. Best little brother ever, even though he's not blood. But you don't have to be blood-related to be family. I'm really happy that he's still doing so well. I love having him here with us. I hope he'll like his new school. He's really smart, so I think he'll do well now that he's not doing the shit he was doing before. He just needs to stay focused and put his mind to it.

At least school won't be starting up again for me in a week. It feels good to be done with it. Well, done until I start grad school, anyway. But that needs to wait a little while. I should probably at least think about starting to study for the GRE. But I don't plan on starting grad school for at least another year. Too much going on. And if we have another baby before then, I'll probably push it back another year. I definitely plan on going though. It's just a matter of time. It took me forever to buckle down and finish my undergrad, so waiting a few years to go to grad school is fine with me.

Things between Jenny and I are much better now. We still haven't resolved the custody issue, but we're not fighting over it anymore. We talked about how it might be a good idea for us to talk to some type of counselor about it at some point, but we're not going to do it right now. We came to an agreement and decided to just enjoy being a family right now, without worrying about the legal issues. We both agreed that it's not worth fighting over, since the legality of it all wouldn't change our family structure. Things are good right now, and there's no need to stir it up. We have other things to focus on right now, anyway. Obviously the legal issue is still there, but we decided that it's best to just leave it alone for now, because the status quo is working for us. There's no need to fix it immediately if it isn't really broken. We'll settle it eventually.


Sorry, I'm a little behind on reading journals. I'll catch up on reading everyone's soon...I've just been busy. Such is life.