1st Day of School

The dreaded first day of school has gone when the alarm clocks sound shrill that early in the morning, kids are excited and complaining of stomach aches and moms are putting their babies on the bus for the first time...another snip of the apron strings, another milestone.

My youngest (preschooler) had motion sickness on the bus and christened the bus floor for them with her cheerios. Her first bus ride. She was excited to go to school and then became a little tentative/nervous when she stepped onto the bus. The bus is huge and she is so tiny. She bravely got buckled into her seat for the bus ride to school. I smiled, told her to have fun, and choked on tears as the bus pulled away. Other than yakking, she enjoyed her first day of preschool.

My other three kids made it through the school day happily it seems coming home with a lot to talk about and homework (on the first day!). My middle daughter rarely stops talking anyway s now she had even more to talk about...talking so fast she was stuttering like crazy. My son's only complaint was that his locker was too far away from his classroom and they can't fill their water bottles until the end of the day. My oldest started junior high. They enforce the dress code in junior high (can't have distractions now, which she is complaining about). Not that she dresses inappropriately but she has long arms and long legs so when you can't wear shorts or skirts above your fingertips when your arms are at your side, she has a disadvantage because skirts/shorts that would be fine on other girls look too short on her with the fingertip rule. I blamed it on boys. I told her that boys in junior high get distracted easily now so the girls have to make sure they aren't dressed to distract.

It all went well for all of them. They seem to like their teachers so far and it has distracted my oldest daughter from the loss of her horse a bit so she's not holed up in her room anymore. She went outside to play for the first time since last week yesterday after school.