Day One of School - Down!

Naturally, this post will be mostly about me.

My kids did, in fact, go back to school today. I discovered at about 10:30 last night that I had bought school supplies for a kindergartener and a 1st grader. I do have a 1st grader, but no kindergartener. I have a 2nd grader, however, that was now missing a chunk of supplies. And here I had been preening over buying them all super-early and not having to think about them again.

So that required a 6am trip to Randalls. They had all but one thing - red marking pencils. Who cares? I'll get them later. I also got lunch food since it occurred to me that they would be eating at some point today.

They couldn't have cared less when Andy and I dropped them off. They were already chatting and coloring the second we walked to their desks. Whatev, I love you too. Really, though, I'm so glad my kids are excited and eager for school.

Gabe was totally different than last year on his first day without his playmates. He hated interacting with me. So, I feel no guilt about all the tv he watched. We did take a walk to Randalls so he could get a free cookie from the bakery, that counts.

Back to me: I enrolled in an online New Testament course from BYU. Yep, back to school for me, too. No supplies required. I'm very excited.



After school, the pick-up line was REDONKULOUS! 30 minutes later, I got the kids in the care, and two minutes after that, Claire was having her first breakdown. She only has so much niceness to spread around, and school sucks it all up. She's just like me in that. She had to have a timeout during snack for screaming and bawling about something so insignificant I can't remember, but it was mighty loud up there. Wall-kicking, repeated door-slamming, and yelling yelling yelling. AND she left her lunchbox at school. So it begins...

Now I'm trying to force myself to make dinner. Oh, how I hate it! (PS - next Claire fit has just begun. Aye yi yi.)