Musings of a Michigan Mom

My family thinks I know everything when it comes to electronics, but between you & me, I really don’t know anything and truly wish I did.   Just this week my laptop starting acting a little on the crazy side.  The screen started flickering and then would end up going black without me touching anything and I had it plugged in so I know it wasn’t the battery.  I ended up having to hold the power button down so it would shut down and then I turned it back on to have the same thing happen.

I ended up calling my father in law and he gave me the idea to plug in our monitor from the desktop to the laptop and found out when I did that everything would come up on the monitor even though my laptop was black.   At least we then knew it wasn’t the memory that was going back, but the back lighting.  So I ended up calling one of the mom & pop computer stores in Hudsonville and explained the situation and they agreed it sounded like that inverter and got one on order for me.   Go figure, once I get one on order my laptop decides to act normal again!   Not once have I had any issues with it since talking to the computer guy.   It’s not different than a car that makes noise… you ask your husband about it and then it doesn’t do it anymore. 

Oh well… at least everything seems to be going good now.  I just wish I knew why.

I just looked at the calendar and realized that it’s just about August and you know what that means… only a little over a month and my baby boy will be going to school FULL TIME!  Oh how different that will be for me.  I know I will miss him dearly as he is my big helper around the house, but then again, I won’t be missing the fighting between the two all day long.   I just can’t imagine how busy our life will start being.  Having to be up and to the bus stop at 8:20, Katie to preschool Tues & Thursday afternoons and then taking Kevin to karate up to 4 times a week. (I will try to have him go at least twice, but if he doesn’t have homework and feels up to going more.. I’ll let him)

I can’t imagine what it will be like when they are older and will start doing sports or Katie starting Dance or Karate.  Karate would be nice as they would be the same time, same place.. .but I know her heart is more into Dance right now.  I did end up finding a dance class that is during the day on Katie’s days off of school so I really think that would be our better option at least this year if I decide to start her in that.

So are you ready for school to start?  Or are you wishing this summer would last a little longer?