yesterday, two of these three goofballs headed back to school. the smallest one has a couple weeks till preschool starts.
one on a bus, to his new middle school. there was a 6am wake up call. hello, 6th grade. he had a good first day and has found some new people with friend potential. i am glad that his leap to a new school is off on the right foot.
one on foot, with some friends that live nearby. hello, 4th grade. most of ben's friends are in the other class this year, but he'll see quite a bit of them. we like his teacher and i can't wait to see what the leap to the intermediate grades does for him.
now it's time to carve out a new routine. we spent the summer struggling to find one. they went to 3 camps each this summer - which was 5 weeks of different schedules, since they didn't do them all together. plus a week of vacation. this fall's routine will be an entirely new one, and one with out the door times almost 2 hours apart.
i read twyla tharp's the creative habit this summer. i found it via elise's blog, i believe, and read it cover to cover on my flight to kentucky. even as i read it, i knew it really wasn't a book to just be read - it really begs to be marked up, highlighted and digested. however, i found myself wanting to just read the first time, to get the big picture.
the chapter on routine keeps coming back to me - lexi and i even talked about it a bit when she was here. for me, the ideal routine is get boys to school, obtain a diet coke and then put glue to paper. i don't have to repeat the process more than once a day, but i rely on that routine at the start of the dauto focus and get into the groove. progress builds on progress, i just need that jump start into forward motion.
since we're at a natural place to regroup, i need to reread that chapter. to learn how to get more out of my routines. what do YOU have to do before you can sit down and be creative? if you think about it, i bet there's something. even if you do it subconciously. i'd love to hear your routines.
