September
September means back to school, but this year was special. Both kids in high school, the same school, the same bus too. One at the beginning of high school and one at the end. It's a big year! Easton started a day before Hadley, because the school has one day with only grade 9's so they have a chance to figure things out a little before the rest of the students arrive the next day. Hadley was happy to have an additional day of summer break.
How are the days so long sometimes but the years so fast?!
As they were off to school, I took a moment to look around and see my peppers growing, with zucchini, sunflowers, and tomatoes...So much growth.
I need to really take it all in.
After just a few days of the new routine, Brian and I met up with Shaye and Matt, who I knew from camp many years ago and we had dinner out in Toronto at Amsterdam Brewhouse before heading to Budweiser stadium for the Collective Soul/Hootie and the Blowfish concert. It was a fun date night but the weather is already changing! It was a cool outdoor concert.
This was followed by Easton's finals for soccer where his team achieved 2nd place. This was a hard loss, but we are still so proud of him.
More work on the house the past few weekends to get the stone up under the island in the kitchen. It is nice to not have stone all over our living room as we may not get to more of that for a while. It looks so good. Plus we needed to clean up to have Easton's LAN party birthday weekend. It was early because it was the weekend that worked for everyone but he had so much fun!
There have been a few really nice days where I took advantage of the good weather and went out for some longer walks including seeing the salmon swim upstream. This is always fascinating to me, and it is only 5 minutes from our house! Patti joined me for this one.
Easton is back on the ice playing hockey. #9. This year he tried out for the select team and got the AP position. This is the alternate player position. So if anyone is sick, or they need a back up because someone will be away, they will call him. He is expected to be at all practices to be ready! He is excited and hopeful that this means tournament play. The month finished off with the leaves changing colour and the kids wearing their orange shirts to school to remember that Every Child Matters.