thoughts to think

i'm still working on putting back all the things i lost on my laptop when it crashed last month. my itunes is restored but i lost quite a few photos and links i had saved from the net. not a huge deal, but lost nonetheless. and i have to upload all our personal photos again. this is on my to do list for this fall when the boys are back at school.

supposedly i have more free time once the kids are in school. in reality, it's not so much more free time, as different free time. i will be driving children around more often and have no oldest son to babysit (since he's in school). but the weather won't be stiffling hot at least. and maybe girlchild and i can visit the playground more often and without the time constaints from kindergarten.

i volunteered to help in the library at the elementary school this year. i'm not sure now how feasible that will be, so i might back out and hold off another two years (when girlchild will be in full day school and i really WILL have more free time). i'm thinking on it right now. i loved volunteering the few months i did it in 2004 (my pregnancy issues took me out of the volunteer system). if i do it this year, i will have to put girlchild in an extended day at preschool, and i don't know if that's a good fit for her really (plus there's the financial side).