Ah, the ides of September....

It's back to being drippy here in Anchorage. Last night Tess cheered at a football game in the cold rain. Thankfully, their fleeces (monogrammed and all!) and their cheer sweats arrived just in time for the game. So they were at least mostly warm and dry. On top of that, the team was victorious! They pulled off a last-second, one-point lead for a 7-6 win! Yay!

It was also Back to School night at the high school last night. So I sat in the rain for half the game... just long enough for cold water to seep through my stadium seat and completely saturate my pants.... Then I tossed the wet stadium seat in the back of the van and met Stephen, Donald, and Alicia inside the school for the meet & greet sessions with the kids' teachers...

As is to be expected, some of the teachers are better than others. But overall, the kids are enjoying their classes and the school as a whole. It seems to be a good environment through which to suffer the perils of high school. I'm not sure I could say the same if we had moved to the City of Anchorage proper and enrolled the kids in one of the more urban high schools. Some of them seem to be plagued with gangs and troublemakers. So we are very happy with our choice of Chugiak High School.