Wednesday August 26th was the first day of school. When I asked them how they felt about going back to school James responded with a "I don't care. Sure" Kenzie, "I just hope I don't have classes with all those kids that don't do anything and make it hard to pay attention. And it's going to be weird having James in one of my classes" Cami was very excited to get back. "I'm bored and can't wait to be busy again." It's great to see them still love school. Cami is still jumping up and down with the excitement of school, but is adding "It will be very weird to see my teacher so often." Her teacher lives in our neighborhood. Olivia was a little worried, and very excited about this year. She was all ready for her first day of 1st grade, which was actually a meet and great with the teacher, she was up and ready at 7 am and didn't meet with her teacher until 10:45. But the next day when it came time to leave she warmed me with big hugs and kisses and kept asking if I'd be there to pick her up. Now that she's had a few days of school. She loves it. She brings home her homework, excited to start it. With all 4 kids in school all day I'm finding a lot a "quite time". It sure sounded great last year and even 2 or 3 years ago when I still had at least one home most of the day, but now that I spend up to 7 hours with out the kids around, it's lonely. I'm sure I'll find myself doing all the projects that I started but never finished, (I tend to do that, a lot). It will take some time to get use to the quite, but I'm hoping to fill many of those days by helping at the elementary school.
