Today was Belinda’s first day of school at NWOSU. She didn’t take a picture of herself in the morning (and skipped by the people taking first-day photos of the students down by the student center) but she did take some in her dorm room for me. I asked for one with the buildings behind her and she went outside the dorm and took one but after she sent it she said it was too terrible and I was not to send it. It’s still surreal that we just left her in Alva yesterday. She is supposed to be here with me!

Sarah started school on Thursday and today was her first day of early band practice. I do not like getting up at 6:30 to make sure she’s up and going, and then driving her to school! Today I left my shoes upstairs and couldn’t find my flip flops and so I drove her barefoot. I also went to the Band Boosters meeting tonight, a thing my parents didn’t do but I am determined to do. Also found out that this year’s band trip is to Dallas because it’s a small year trip, but next year Universal is planned and that will be huge! Sarah is excited about Dallas because she doesn’t remember ever going. We took her to Six Flags but she was pretty small then.

Lenora is art teaching at a microschool and today was her second day. I asked her to take a photo of herself both times and she did not.

And Bennett is still working at the bank. And I am ready to get things to be a little bit slower. I felt ready to do some house cleaning today, which was very good. I’ve been going so fast I haven’t even considered that, really. I do have a pretty long to-do list with some medical things, but I’ll try to focus on that tomorrow.

I still need to finish the book I’m reading, and then I have two more library books to read, and I got my friend Evelyn Skye’s new book today and it looks fantastic! So I’ve got to speed up on that too.