Rrrrrripppp

The workers arrived this morning to tear the cedar shakes off the side of our house and begin wrapping it with insulation and wire. It will look entirely different by the end of the day.

The kids are very excited for Halloween. There is a party/carnival at Douglas's preschool this afternoon which should be fun. We will just trick-or-treat on the block.

Thanks to Eileen for sending the Halloween books, which they have enjoyed!

This morning was the parent-teacher conference for Owen. It went fine. He is doing outstanding in writing (in Sept. all first graders were assessed in a writing prompt on a scale of 1 to 20; they are supposed to be at 15 by the end of first grade and he was already at 18), and reading at around a 3rd grade level. He is not doing so well on keeping up with his "work plan" and getting the teacher to sign off on it, and in raising his hand in class. Plus he needs to do better with money. We barely use cash any more so it seems like it is hard to integrate it into his daily life! Need to work on that I guess...