Life lately

So Jonathan is finishing his 4th week of the new job at Purdue, Heath is finishing his 3rd week of kindergarten, and Reese and I are making slow progress on unpacking boxes as this marks our first week of owning our new home in Indiana. We didn't have internet for awhile there in the transition and so how on earth would you know what was going on in our lives?!? (You could have called like uncle Adam did)

Here is the short and skinny:
J- Yes he likes his new job and working full time again. He is enjoying the colleagues in University Residences and loving the opportunity to connect more regularly with student staff in his neighborhood (three building areas he supervises). He has done his part to make updates on his dissertation and awaiting a response (over a month now) from his advisor on moving ahead with the next item of scheduling his prospectus (kind of like a defense of his first three chapters). He is enrolled as a student at VT this semester as he will work on the dissertation from a distance.

H- Yes he likes kindergarten. As he tells people about it he describes it as "hard work" and that he is learning new things, like the sounds that different letters make. He has nightly homework that I think is a bit much after a 8:15am-2:45pm day of working hard, but we are learning a rhythm to try and get that done before J comes home so we can have family time in the evening. His homework consists of tracing upper case and lower case letters, coloring patterns, writing his first name, reading a short story nightly and practicing sight word flash cards nightly. Hard work is a good description. His teacher speaks Spanish so of the four kindergarten classes, they assigned most all of the Spanish speaking kids to her room and Heath gets to learn a new language alongside all of the other lessons! We think this is awesome, and a big part of why we wanted to be in a mixed neighborhood and public school system.

R- She is needy in this transition. Just as we were getting into a rhythm of living on campus, our house was ready and we moved again, uprooting anything that had become normal. She is tired at night but wakes up consistently at 5 or 5:30am. She is learning all the stairs and doors of our home and gotten a few bumps and bruises in the process. She enjoys taking walks around the neighborhood and walking Heath to and from school and waving at all the friends.

L- I'm trying to take each day at a time, set mini goals so I feel that something is accomplished, but still needing to lower my expectations. The honeymoon of living on campus and not having to deal with unpacking and boxes is certainly over. Once we get settled into this new space I know the days will find a rhythm and not be so overwhelming, but this week they have been. In part because of the boxes that Reese's clinging won't let me get to, in part because of Heath's disregard for listening to me or rules like not jumping on the couch, and in part because J has had to cover for his team this week and work some extra evening hours. This too shall pass.... right? :/