The first week of the semester is under our belt and we could not be happier!
It was even busier than most years since we moved and closed on our house during the first week of classes -- I would NOT recommend that for anyone who works in higher ed, but it couldn't be avoided.
We made it through the week and celebrated with pub night at Saint Arnold's on Friday - it was set up as the kickoff event for LSU fans for the LSU/Wisconsin game taking place the next night -- I've never seen so much purple and gold (and in so many varieties) - we even saw a diaper with the LSU logo.
This weekend has been wonderful and relaxed -- we were concentrating so much on getting through the week so never even stopped to put together any plans for the long weekend, just knowing we don't have to do any packing has been a great way to spend the weekend.
We are fortunate that we are able to stay with Kevin's parents while we are between houses, and even Smokey feels at home, we can tell when he started eating normally again. Knowing we'd be between houses for a few weeks made packing difficult as we had to keep out items we'd need, but send as much as we could with the
movers. The best item we kept out is a new toy for Smokey -- we used that to put him at ease, crazy critters are his favorite!
We've also been able to spend time doing some shopping for the new place (the fun part about moving).....we saw the home on Friday and are even more excited getting to see more about our new home--- the master bath has TWELVE drawers for storage (our previous home had NONE)
It was even busier than most years since we moved and closed on our house during the first week of classes -- I would NOT recommend that for anyone who works in higher ed, but it couldn't be avoided.
We made it through the week and celebrated with pub night at Saint Arnold's on Friday - it was set up as the kickoff event for LSU fans for the LSU/Wisconsin game taking place the next night -- I've never seen so much purple and gold (and in so many varieties) - we even saw a diaper with the LSU logo.
This weekend has been wonderful and relaxed -- we were concentrating so much on getting through the week so never even stopped to put together any plans for the long weekend, just knowing we don't have to do any packing has been a great way to spend the weekend.
We are fortunate that we are able to stay with Kevin's parents while we are between houses, and even Smokey feels at home, we can tell when he started eating normally again. Knowing we'd be between houses for a few weeks made packing difficult as we had to keep out items we'd need, but send as much as we could with the
movers. The best item we kept out is a new toy for Smokey -- we used that to put him at ease, crazy critters are his favorite!
We've also been able to spend time doing some shopping for the new place (the fun part about moving).....we saw the home on Friday and are even more excited getting to see more about our new home--- the master bath has TWELVE drawers for storage (our previous home had NONE)
