Well, it's official. Tess is a high school cheerleader. She made the JV squad. Yay! Or I should say: Rah rah rah! Sis boom bah! She's pleased. [You can send your congratulations to her at bugoff319@yahoo.com.] Some of the other girls live in our neighborhood it turns out. So maybe we can work out some carpools....

We're thinking of popping up to Talkeetna on Saturday to play tourist and show the kids around. I fly out to San Diego at like 1am Sunday morning. Talkeetna is about a 1.5-2 hour drive from our house.

We registered the kids for school last night. They're both going to be in Advanced English classes which unfortunately had summer reading lists of which they have only just been made aware. Now the challenge is to locate those titles at the library in time for them to read them within the next 3 weeks.... Hmmmm.