Empty house

With Joel back at work and the kids at school (2 days a week) I find myself in a quiet, clean, empty house. That only lasts for the day, but it's still a little weird for me. This week was the kids 2nd week at school and they are loving it. I didn't get a hug, kiss or even a goodbye the 1st day of school and 2 days later Jace was crying for Mrs. Wendy. I'm glad they enjoy going and don't make it hard on me leaving them.
We signed J.J. up for soccer and he had his 1st practice last night. It was 95' at 5:45pm and as we're walking on the field he whines, "it's too hot and I don't want to practice....". I felt like one of those moms who pushes her kids to play sports even though they don't want to, but come on - it was the 1st practice!! He got into it about 30min into practice when the sun started going down. It's only a 6 week thing, so if he really doesn't like it then we won't do it again. (but, we will try basketball and baseball ;) )
Joel is feeling great and pretty much back to normal. He's finally back at the gym and enjoying that. He has an appointment the end of this month with his oncologist here and then his appointment at MD Anderson the middle of October. We are expecting everything to be normal and to put this all behind us.