Good bye late nights and lazy mornings
It's time to see old friends again, and maybe make some new ones.
They seem ready. Their mom, not so much [grin].
Showing posts with label Back to School. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Back to School. Show all posts
2010/08/24
2009/08/24
Back-to-School
I am going to see if I can stay awake long enough to write this post down. I am falling asleep already after getting up at 5:45AM this morning. I tried to go out walking, but it was so dark and foggy, I got spooked and was only able to go around the subdivision once. (Yes, I am that paranoid at times). I ended up doing some stretches and doing some Wii Fit.
The morning was uneventful and we left for school according to plan. Both girls were a little nervous so they were acting extra silly on the way to school. Once there things got a little more hectic since the school changed a bit their system on first day of school.
While standing in line with Natalie, I overhead another mom say that there were two first grade classrooms. I panicked because I had called the school last week to confirm and they told me then they were still planning to have just one classroom.
I left Natalie in line and went to the office to find out what class she was in and sure enough, she had been assigned to the new teacher's classroom. I felt bad giving the school officials more stress on such a hectic day, but I just knew Natalie would have a meltdown if she was not with the teacher she was expecting. We had worked with her during the summer preparing her for first grade with Ms. Y.
Luckily, by the time she came into the classroom, things had been taken care of. She showed a little bit of nerves, when the teacher told her to go sit at one of the desks with no name, but handled herself pretty well. I went to the other classroom, took her name sticker, and put it on her desk and that made her feel much better. I snapped a picture of her and then she shoo me out of the classroom.
Here is my cute First Grader
With all this last minute commotion, I was not able to go and see Kaitlin in her classroom. I peeked in the gym while they were waiting to go to class and she looked content talking to her friends. She struggled all summer feeling anxious about starting 7th grade and wondering if she was going to be OK to the point of wishing classes would start so she could get it over with. When I picked her up this afternoon, she was all smiles and feeling good about things.
Another school year, another milestone in both girls' lives. I hope their year is full of good times and amazing experiences.
P.S. This afternoon I was reading through some blogs and found this quote by another mom talking about her kids first day of school and how she tries to foster independence so they grow strong “The easiest way to make life hard on your children is to make it soft for them”. Kind of made me re-think my whole meddling this morning changing classrooms, etc. :) It is hard to stop yourself sometimes from trying to make their life as easy as possible. Isn’t it?
The morning was uneventful and we left for school according to plan. Both girls were a little nervous so they were acting extra silly on the way to school. Once there things got a little more hectic since the school changed a bit their system on first day of school.
While standing in line with Natalie, I overhead another mom say that there were two first grade classrooms. I panicked because I had called the school last week to confirm and they told me then they were still planning to have just one classroom.
I left Natalie in line and went to the office to find out what class she was in and sure enough, she had been assigned to the new teacher's classroom. I felt bad giving the school officials more stress on such a hectic day, but I just knew Natalie would have a meltdown if she was not with the teacher she was expecting. We had worked with her during the summer preparing her for first grade with Ms. Y.
Luckily, by the time she came into the classroom, things had been taken care of. She showed a little bit of nerves, when the teacher told her to go sit at one of the desks with no name, but handled herself pretty well. I went to the other classroom, took her name sticker, and put it on her desk and that made her feel much better. I snapped a picture of her and then she shoo me out of the classroom.
Here is my cute First Grader
With all this last minute commotion, I was not able to go and see Kaitlin in her classroom. I peeked in the gym while they were waiting to go to class and she looked content talking to her friends. She struggled all summer feeling anxious about starting 7th grade and wondering if she was going to be OK to the point of wishing classes would start so she could get it over with. When I picked her up this afternoon, she was all smiles and feeling good about things.
Another school year, another milestone in both girls' lives. I hope their year is full of good times and amazing experiences.
P.S. This afternoon I was reading through some blogs and found this quote by another mom talking about her kids first day of school and how she tries to foster independence so they grow strong “The easiest way to make life hard on your children is to make it soft for them”. Kind of made me re-think my whole meddling this morning changing classrooms, etc. :) It is hard to stop yourself sometimes from trying to make their life as easy as possible. Isn’t it?
2009/08/10
14 Days
The girls go back to school in 14 days!
This summer has been so unstructured. Normally there are schedules, and planned activities or outings. However, this summer there were some days where I woke up and did not even know where I was going to send the girls during the day. Thanks to both of my sisters, the girls spent much of their time at their cousins’ house, doing pretty much whatever they wanted. They painted rocks, went fruit picking, rode bikes, played video games, watched TV and went to bed late. Unfortunately, Joel and I were not able to take much time off work this summer but I think the girls were fine with the low structure, low stress set-up.
However, those blissful, unscheduled days of summer are pretty much over. My beautiful, intelligent and very intense daughter Kaitlin, has decided we need a strict back to school preparation schedule, so we are ready and there is no chance we will be late for school…. Ever! Being she is the product of her mother neurosis, I feel I owe it to her to support her in these endeavors.
A couple of weeks ago she created a morning schedule, and we have been trying to follow it since last week.
We did not get to follow it everyday, but are hoping to get ourselves back into the routine this week. Even Natalie is looking forward to “practicing” for school. Kaitlin’s schedule calls for her to get up at 6AM and go out to exercise for half an hour. By the way, she also wrote a schedule for me, and mine starts at 5:30AM. Yikes!!
Very reluctantly I was able to drag myself out of bed at 6AM three mornings during last week to go out walking. It was so hard to make myself do it, but once I did it, I noticed a big difference in my energy level for the rest of the day.
One of those mornings there was a full moon, and it looked so beautiful, I ran back home and grabbed my camera. My poor little camera did not do the scenery justice, and it was hard to get my hands steady enough to avoid the pictures being blurry but here are some of the better ones I took.
It really feels great to be out walking when it is still somewhat dark outside and everything is so quiet. Of course, come the snow, it will be a different story, but for now, I am enjoying these early morning moments.
I have started a couple of posts just recording some of the little things we have been doing this summer, but have not had time to finish them. In the meantime, here is a quick recap in pictures:
Celebrated my niece Jacqui’s 13th birthday at the end of June.
Visited Worlds of Fun in Kansas City with the girls. Kaitlin stayed 3 weeks with her grandparents.
Attended a Murder Mystery Dinner hosted by Joel’s parents in Nebraska.
Celebrated my sister’s Ivette birthday. The party was a little “corny”.
Took Natalie to the Beach and the Zoo during her days as our “Only Child”.
Natalie learned to ride a bike without training wheels. Unrelated to the biking, she also lost another tooth.
We went back-to-school shopping.
Hope you had a great summer and made lots of sweet little memories with your loved ones.
This summer has been so unstructured. Normally there are schedules, and planned activities or outings. However, this summer there were some days where I woke up and did not even know where I was going to send the girls during the day. Thanks to both of my sisters, the girls spent much of their time at their cousins’ house, doing pretty much whatever they wanted. They painted rocks, went fruit picking, rode bikes, played video games, watched TV and went to bed late. Unfortunately, Joel and I were not able to take much time off work this summer but I think the girls were fine with the low structure, low stress set-up.
However, those blissful, unscheduled days of summer are pretty much over. My beautiful, intelligent and very intense daughter Kaitlin, has decided we need a strict back to school preparation schedule, so we are ready and there is no chance we will be late for school…. Ever! Being she is the product of her mother neurosis, I feel I owe it to her to support her in these endeavors.
A couple of weeks ago she created a morning schedule, and we have been trying to follow it since last week.
We did not get to follow it everyday, but are hoping to get ourselves back into the routine this week. Even Natalie is looking forward to “practicing” for school. Kaitlin’s schedule calls for her to get up at 6AM and go out to exercise for half an hour. By the way, she also wrote a schedule for me, and mine starts at 5:30AM. Yikes!!
Very reluctantly I was able to drag myself out of bed at 6AM three mornings during last week to go out walking. It was so hard to make myself do it, but once I did it, I noticed a big difference in my energy level for the rest of the day.
One of those mornings there was a full moon, and it looked so beautiful, I ran back home and grabbed my camera. My poor little camera did not do the scenery justice, and it was hard to get my hands steady enough to avoid the pictures being blurry but here are some of the better ones I took.
It really feels great to be out walking when it is still somewhat dark outside and everything is so quiet. Of course, come the snow, it will be a different story, but for now, I am enjoying these early morning moments.
I have started a couple of posts just recording some of the little things we have been doing this summer, but have not had time to finish them. In the meantime, here is a quick recap in pictures:
Celebrated my niece Jacqui’s 13th birthday at the end of June.
Visited Worlds of Fun in Kansas City with the girls. Kaitlin stayed 3 weeks with her grandparents.
Attended a Murder Mystery Dinner hosted by Joel’s parents in Nebraska.
Celebrated my sister’s Ivette birthday. The party was a little “corny”.
Took Natalie to the Beach and the Zoo during her days as our “Only Child”.
Natalie learned to ride a bike without training wheels. Unrelated to the biking, she also lost another tooth.
We went back-to-school shopping.
Hope you had a great summer and made lots of sweet little memories with your loved ones.
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