First Days of School

Heaven help me ... I have a 7th grader. Marissa's not too keen on waking up early enough to be ready and to the bus stop by 7:15. I can't blame her ... I can barely lift my head off the pillow to tell her "good-bye" each morning. Bless her heart. She's almost not made it several times ... and DIDN'T make it the 6th day of school claiming she needed a break. nice. We keep tweaking and re-tweaking to try to help her make this adjustment. Overall, though - she REALLY loves being at school -- has fabulous friends -- her teachers seem wonderful -- we broke down and let her have the "home" cell phone (best decision ever) -- and she's quite cute ... so she'll make it. :)


Aaron is absolutely IN LOVE with 2nd grade!! Of course, this kid was made for school. He's smart, obedient, friendly, kind ... just teacher's pet material (I'm not too prejudice, am I?) Since all 3 of our kids started school on different days this year ... I, for some reason didn't even THINK about getting pictures of Aaron before school on his first day. We get to the school - I'm dropping him off like just a regular old day --- and Moms and Dads are hauling in photography equipment ... and walking their own children in. I had just pulled myself out of bed ... so there was NO WAY I was getting out of the car at all. I simply had to say, "Sure love ya bud! Have a good day!" - and let him go on his way. Wonderful, wonderful parenting skills. I DID make it with camera in tow AFTER school, though. TOTALLY redeemed myself :D!


It musta done me in getting Marissa off to school that first week - because, when Krystal's turn came - we got her all beautified and ready for her first day ... and she was SOOOO excited. I took a million pictures of her walking into preschool and all that jazz -- I FOR SURE wasn't going to make the same mistake twice. The whole time I was wondering where all the other parents and kids were. Yeah. I brought her a day early for her first day. Again ... nice. No worries ... she was beautified and ready the next day for her official first day of pre-school.



Now we're into the daily reading logs, homework sign-offs, practice times, tv limits, TEXTING limits (sheesh), job checks, strict bedtimes --- the whole exhausting 9 yards! But, I'm so glad school is back in!