After a long and relaxing Christmas holiday, Kelly and Christian start back to school today. We got maybe ten percent of the stuff we planned done over the holidays. That is a good thing. We DID spend a bunch of time cooking, working out (semi-regularly), talking about life, and just hanging out. I think we all needed that. Over the last couple of days we spent the last significant chunk of money for school on this semester’s books and a new laptop for Kelly. Her netbook died on us. Her only criteria was that her new computer had to be pink. Amazingly, our SysAdmin (Christian) was able to find a refurbished computer at Dell with all the features she REALLY needs with the added benefit that it is pink. We bought our books from Amazon and saved a bundle. Pretty impressive actually. We got hardcover texts less expensively than it would have cost us to buy the electronic versions.
Both the kids have significantly heavier loads this semester. Kelly has a 16 credit load with both Calculus II and Statistics. Christian has 17 credits. They have one class each on Mondays and Wednesdays, so they are loaded up from dawn ’til dark on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Christian has a three-hour night class on Tuesday evenings. We drove to Target yesterday afternoon to buy new folders, notebooks, and pens for all their classes. It is amazing how this remains exciting, even after many years. I envy them a little.