Back to School Blues?

NOT at our house! Today is a wonderful day :)

Tristen, Jarek, and Emme all started school today. I feel like such a bad mom admitting that I've been so excited for school to start and I've been counting down the days for the past couple of weeks. The kids have been at each other's throats all summer. I've done waaaaay too much refereeing. I think them being in school for several hours every day is going to be very good for all of us.

Tristen left first. I HATE that he has to ride the bus, but his school starts an hour before Jarek and Emme's and there's just no way I'm getting all four kids up earlier to run him to school, then figuring out what to do with them for an entire hour before I have to get Jarek and Emme to school. So, he rides the bus. He didn't seem to mind too much this year. He doesn't care so much for his school either, but it wasn't near as scary sending him since he's been there a year already. His school is a "Modified Student Attire" school, which is basically a step away from being a uniform school. He can wear the typical school uniform, but he can also wear black, gray, and gold/yellow, which are their school colors. Everything has to be solid colored and his shirts have to have a collar. I'm not crazy about the dress code but he does always look nice for school.

Jarek was very excited for school to start this year. He told me this morning that he didn't go to sleep til 2:00 a.m., which I'm hoping isn't true, but he insisted that he wasn't tired anyway. His best friend from last year is in his class and he couldn't wait to see him. Several of the kids from his class last year are in his class again this year so it will be fun to get to work with all of their parents again.

Up until the past week or so Emme has insisted that she did NOT want to go to school, so I was a little worried. But once we bought her new school clothes and her backpack and lunch bag and I told her that she couldn't use them until the first day of school, she changed her mind. We went to her kindergarten orientation on Friday and she got to meet her teacher and see her classroom, I think that helped too. She was happy most of this morning, she did lose it a bit when she put her shoes on...she has super sensitive feet and we have had NUMEROUS melt downs over her shoes being "too tight" even when they're a size too big. I do worry about her in school with her little attitude but hopefully that is something she'll save for home -- or even better, get over it all together. (A mom can dream, right?)

Of course, I can't post pics of my three older kids and not include one of Camden ;) This was at the Boo-Hoo Breakfast, which is a tradition for kindergarten parents at our school. There were actually parents there who were bawling, but nope, not me!



By the way -- My comments have been MUCH better this past week :) Keep it up!