You know it’s the end of the summer when the kids are back in school. With our oldest being in a year-round school, that doesn’t quite make as much of a distinction as the “traditional” school does.
But this year the kids had a great summer. They spent 5 weeks with their grandparents (my parents), and then my parents visited us for another five weeks. My sister also visited us for a bit over 3 weeks, so we had a nice family reunion going on. Too bad I was so busy I didn’t get to spend enough time with them.
My parents left on Saturday, my sister left on Monday. My daughter was very sad that her aunt is going back home, to the point where we couldn’t make her stop crying – both Sunday night and Monday morning when she woke up extra early to say bye to my sister. Very emotional.
We’re now adjusting to being by ourselves with the kids (with the young one growing up, it’s a lot more exciting and challenging, since he’s very creative).
In other news: I decided to decline Todd and Monica’s invitation to join them for the Rock’n'Roll half-marathon in Virginia Beach, VA. Too many people in the same place scare me (the race is supposed to have 20k participants). I’ll try to do the Asheville half-marathon, mid-September, instead.
There are lots of other things happening that keep me busy; just like in my previous post 3 months ago, I promise I will write about them in the near future 
Also in some future post, more about our own vacation in Paris and Munchen.