Thursday, August 18, 2005

First Day of School

The day finally arrived. Mattie's first day of kindergarten and Sarah's first day of 4th grade. I made breakfast sandwiches inspired by my friend Karin G. (Karin, if you are reading this, I even used hamburger buns!) Mattie opened hers up and ate the insides first, and then decided the bread wasn't too bad.

Mattie declared that she was "a little nervous". DH was in charge of pictures. Considering I took a whole roll of film 4 years ago, Mattie's first day did not get the same coverage, even with the digital. Oh, well, we got the important ones --front porch, in front of school with the sign, and with the teacher after school. Even a couple in class.

Mattie learned about tornado/fire/lock down drills. Her teacher read two books. They played with play dough and they had recess. She made a new friend, Brooke. That's about all I got out of her.

Sarah did not want her picture taken at school. Funny, I was recently looking at the of her the day she started preschool, in1999. She was not too happy that day either. Sarah has a new best friend, "Mr. Agenda". I'm to review and sign it every night. Is this for the kids or the parents? Seriously, I'm glad they'll be working on organization. Better to learn in 4th grade than 6th or 8th or never, I think. Sarah's teacher does not like the sound of pencils sharpening. She doesn't go to lunch until 12:05 (it was 11:40 last year), but she says she didn't starve. One of her friends has the same lunchbox. She'll have Spanish this year, and "health". I have fond memories of "health" class, myself. I shared them with her. She doesn't want to go. I told her we'd wait and see. For all I know, "health" class this year will be all about nutrition. We are a "School for Healthy Lifestyles" after all.

Before dinner Sarah burst into tears for no good reason, at least none she cared to share with her father or me. Sigh. She's not even 10 years old yet and we're already dealing with the hormones. Or maybe it was just stress. I should be more kind to her. Sigh.

By the time dinner was over, Sarah was a 9yo girl again. Thank goodness!

Tomorrow is another day...

Monday, August 15, 2005

Met the Teachers

One more milestone down--we met the teachers tonight. Sarah will have two teachers this year. Both seemed young & energetic & wonderful--she is so excited about 4th grade now. Also, she has several friends in her class. That could be good OR bad, but we'll hope for the best.

Mattie was pretty shy this morning. I was passing out some PTO stuff to the teachers & the girls were with me. We got to see all the K rooms, but we didn't know yet which one would be Mattie's. Any time Mattie met a teacher, she just hid behind me. But tonight was another story. She just about talked the teacher's ears off! She too is excited about school and can't wait until Thursday.

BTW, volunteering for PTO is WORK. I walked 9,521 steps today. Yay, me!

Sunday, August 14, 2005

This really feels funny

I'm still not sure what to say here. It feels weird.

Today I'm excited b/c I finally tidied up my scrapbook area and now I can WORK. I'm off from my paying job this week so looking forward to doing what I call "mom things". You know, like volunteering at school and baking chocolate chip cookies and yes, hopefully, scrapbooking. All while hanging out with my two favorite girls.

Tomorrow night is "Back to School" night and the girls get to meet their teachers. Sarah is going into 4th grade and Mattie is going to Kindergarten. We have our "favorite teachers" that we hope they get, but honestly, I have not met a teacher I don't like at this school. I feel really blessed that we have such an incredible public school.

It is late so I am going to bed. Maybe I will get bold and post pictures this week.

Tuesday, August 02, 2005

Hey, I'm blogging

Never thought I'd do this, but here I am. Now I just have to think of something useful to say...

Joy