Keeping Busy Until Nicer Weather

I was at a loss as to what to name this post. Maybe I should have called it "The Boring Post". I wanted to throw something up here, but we haven't really done anything or gone anywhere exciting lately. School is super-busy for both of us. I am teaching a new class this year (AP Chem) and it is proving (as expected) to be a ton of work.
The club I sponsor at school (National Honor Society) is also a lot more work (time) this year as I have a super-ambitious president with lots of ideas. This is a good thing for our club, trust me, but as the faculty sponsor, I am giving them a lot of my lunch/after school time (meaning 5 hours of my precious weekend standing outside in 100 degree weather for a car wash). Soccer has started pre-season last week as well. Right now we're only going one day a week but we will up that to twice a week once October gets here. A new committment at school this year is being in the AVID program. This involves me mentoring five girls (2 sophomores and 3 freshmen). We meet at lunch three times a quarter and I check their grades and we discuss different study strategies to help them stay on track in their honors courses. AVID teachers also meet after school once a month and since I was on the "team" that went to Dallas, I am the head of one of our committees this year as well.
I also just got involved in coaching student runners to run the P.F. Chang's Rock-n-Roll Half Marathon this coming January. AZSR (Arizona Student Runners) kicked off this week with practices and I went on my first run with them this morning, at a park north of Phoenix. Our first Saturday run was only a mile, but these kids are not runners (yet!) and it was a challenge for them, especially considering that 9am is still too hot to run outside (for me) in September. The organizers of the program have already tried to get me to commit to their weekday practices but I have opted to attend the Saturday morning sessions for now.
On the business end of things, I am taking 2 online political science classes this fall (one at a time) to fulfill AZ Department of Education's requirements that teachers have college coursework in both the U.S. Constitution and the AZ Constitution. I really love spending one of my weekend afternoons doing reading and online assignments. Grrr. All faculty in my school district just had a huge technology upgrade; we got new MacBooks this week! But with it comes meetings, trainings, and "homework assignments" that "justify" the technology purchase. So in order to get my "extra" $500 in " Group Performance Based Pay" this year I have to attend all of these sessions and complete all of these assignments.
Anyway, this is it on my end for now. I am counting down the days until my fall east coast trip in mid-October. I am so excited to meet the newest addition to our family!