School bus for Jewel

Wednesday September 3rd, was Jewel's first day of school. A long fight with many phone calls finally resulted in a schoolbus for children in Highland Park to attend their out of district school.

Today was also the first day of her new gymnastics class off route 18. The traffic on this major road is close to a nightmare but Patricia will try to learn some tricks to avoid as much of it as possible. Dakota had a Natural Hazards class, and it will be a few weeks (Dakota is learning the Rutgers bus system) before the commuting is ironed out.

Family Home Evening was held on Tuesday (Monday, we were all wasted from the 5K race, beach day) We used a DVD from Dakota's EFY session and Daniel did personal interviews and gave blessings to start the new school year. We played 'Hands Down' (Patricia & Daniel played this game as kids) and 'Elfer raus'. Elfer raus is a Killpack tradition that we began playing years ago. This game comes from Germany where Oma Doris visits and it's also her place of birth. She was kind enough to give this to us.

gratitude thought: grateful that Daniel is home for a few weeks, for the beginning of the school year!