People who know me best know that I am not a fan of school starting. It just means that summer is over and my kids leave me and we have to wake up early and have a schedule and keep track of a million papers/dates, and then do homework and many various projects. Ugh!
Usually I am somewhat prepared for this. But this year it snuck up on me from behind and it hit me HARD! In the weeks leading up to the big day I was very busy with the start-up of our new business (Aerie*) among other things. Traditionally I plan a fancy "back to school" night for the kids where I cook a favorite dinner and decorate and and have a fashion show and we get all pumped up.
This year it didn't happen.
School started on a Tuesday so we settled for FHE with a steak dinner at Texas Roadhouse. Lone Peak football had a big kick-off party as well with a scrimmage so that was fun too. And of course, because I was so unprepared, I was taking the boys to get their hair-cut at 8:55 pm, just before they put up the CLOSED sign. There was no way I was going to let them start school with crusty hair-dos.
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Texas Roadhouse
Well, ready or not, the morning came and here they are, so cute and excited for their first day of school: |
Notice Sambo is in a white polo and navy shorts. That's because he is going to a new charter school for 6th grade. Surprisingly, he is not too bugged about wearing uniforms. That was until he had to wear a white shirt and tie on Monday. Every Monday. I was nervous for him, starting a new school - but when he got home the only complaint he had about his first day was "there aren't very many cute girls there." So I figure if that's the worst thing, then it's going to be ok :)
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First day at Mountainville Academy
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| Mrs. Burnside's class |
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| Mrs. Worlton |
BS and I got the kids dropped off (because we do a lot of being together these days thanks to Aerie*) and I came home and started doing the dishes. And then it hit me and I started to cry. And then I started bawling. The reality of it all came at me so hard and so sudden...the reality that we are officially on to the next phase of life. The phase where there are no more littles at home. No more buddies to play/eat/run errands with. Call me weird but I like having kiddos with me at home. I've been doing it for 13 years and now here I am. And I missed Quincy already. I don't want her to be so grown up. Any of my kids. Then BS came downstairs and saw me crying and then we decided that we were at a huge milestone and that we needed to celebrate!
So we went to the movies! Here we are, the only people in the theatre at 12:15 in the afternoon, with our feet on the chairs and a huge bucket of buttered popcorn and a soda from the fancy soda machine.
It helped me feel better.
As I write this, school has been going now for 7 days. I have yet to have some time to myself at home while the kids are at school (again thanks to Aerie*). So yes, I am still bummin about them being gone. But I'm sure once I get a taste of it, I will like this new phase more and more.
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| The kids and friends after their first day of school. They all had a great day! Except for Chops. Just when he thought things couldn't get worse than the cone of shame, he had to go all day without the kids around and he got lonely :( |
Just for fun, I took some pics the next day of the 2 littles walking to school together.
So. dang. cute. I LOVE that they can walk and ride their bikes together. And I can go with them too! And Chops! I feel really lucky that each of my kids are excited for school to start and not sad, nervous, or whiny about it :)
Still have tons to blog about from summer, but wanted to get school started.
*Information about Aerie coming. Stay tuned.
