First Day of School
Where has time gone? It seems like just yesterday, we were enjoying sweet summertime. Oh wait. That was yesterday. Today is the first day of school!
Big Al and Smarty headed back to public school today.
After two years, we’re finally back in a good school district. There’s no reason for me to keep them at home. Homeschooling was simply a solution to living in such a horrible school district.
It is time. We are all ready. They were driving me crazy.
I got them enrolled in middle school in June….before school was ever out here. What? I said we were ready.
All summer we’ve looked forward to today. I may or may not have counted down how many days until they went to school. They were driving me crazy. We bought new clothes and a bazillion dollars in school supplies.
I’ve decided that we are all going to be really organized this year.
Last night, both boys showered and laid out their clothes for today. They were in bed and sound asleep by 9:30! Since we aren’t eating cold cereal anymore, I measured my dry ingredients for Buttermilk Blueberry Breakfast Cake so everything would be ready to go for a yummy breakfast. I was in bed and asleep by 10:15!
Smarty was up at 5:45 this morning. That set the dog to barking because, Lord forbid one of the boys get up and not let him out of his crate. I got up and walked the dog while Smarty showered…again. For whatever reason.
I got the breakfast cake in the oven, packed Hubby’s lunch and poured him a cup of coffee for the road. Big Al got up and showered….again. For whatever reason. Apparently they wanted to make sure they were really clean for their first day of school.
The breakfast cake came out of the oven and I topped it with a simple glaze of confectioners sugar, juice from the lemon I zested for the cake, and a smidge of milk. It wasn’t part of the recipe but I highly recommend it. It added just the right touch and probably got the boys all jacked up on a sugar high for their first day.
Everybody loved the Buttermilk Blueberry Breakfast Cake and it will definitely go into our regular breakfast rotation.
The boys were completely ready to go before 7:30 so we headed outside to take a few “first day of school” pics. They are such sweet boys and they were kind enough to humor me with this….
Smarty and Big Al on Big Al’s first day of kindergarten. I remember Smarty was so excited for Big Al. He wanted to be just like his big brother, though, so he wore his backpack too.
Smarty and Big Al on their first day of middle school. They are so excited. Smarty is a fifth grader and Big Al a seventh grader. So hard to believe.
After I took my shower and got Bean up, we headed out for school. The original plan was to drop them off at our church, which is next door to the school and let them walk to school on the sidewalk but I decided that, today, I would drop them off at the school door. However, after sitting in some unreal school traffic (with 3 police officers directing traffic just on Main Street) before I ever got to the school, I decided to go back to the original plan.
What the boys don’t know is that after they got a little way up the sidewalk, I followed after them to make sure the police officer who serves as the crossing guard saw them and that they got to the school safely. They were just walking along and chatting and had no clue that I was watching them. They felt so big!
On my way back to the van, my eyes may or may not have filled with tears. My babies are growing up! I’ve had those little boogers home with me for two years – 24/7/365! Although I know it’s best for all of us, sending them back to school was harder than I thought it would be. I know they are going to do great, though.
Bean has “styled” my hair and made me put on dress shoes and we are going to go dance in the living room while the boys are gone.
Enjoy your day!
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They look so excited! I don’t remember looking so happy on my own first days of school – but I’m sure at one point I did.
~Kayla