Becoming Gryder

Where did summer go?  My oldest started first grade (what?!) this week, and her sisters will start classes in the next two weeks.  It's our first year of all three in school.... 3 year preschool, 4k and 1st grade.  And Farmer Allen finally gains two small windows of farm-only time on Tuesday and Thursday mornings.  What will he do with no little girls running around him for 4 hours straight?  Hopefully work on the darned addition that I am so ready to see complete.  We are getting close.... dry wall is hung and finished. And I snuck in a look at paint swatches today during my lunch.  Oh the girly colors my kiddos want.... never did I think I'd have a house with a lavendar room beside a pale pink room and yet now it is a possibility.  We are hanging up some of our darker colors (bye bye brown bedroom) for some more light and airy spaces.  De-clutter.  Simplify.