Batting Blog Clean-Up

Its amazing when I look back at a few years ago and how very, very busy and tired I felt. It was nothing compared to this! Or, perhaps, the busyness was mostly confined to the home and so it felt less like a swirling vortex sucking away the hours of my day with no time for blogging.

I am hoping to do a nice summer re-cap post since my summer posting was definitely, ahem, lacking. However, if I try to make up for everything I haven't gotten done before dealing with the here and now, well, I ought to just throw in the towel.

So, without further ado... First day of school photos and updates: 4th Grade and Kindergarten, heaven help me.

C was content about school starting again, but is old enough to know better! My happy-at-home girl always prefers to be at home than school.  Her backpack was loaded with supplies and a big year of work is ahead of her. She has a great teacher that she adores this year, so that should make everything a lot better. One unhappy development of the year thus far is that she wants to eat hot lunch. I'm hoping its a phase because it pains me to think of her eating that crummy food instead of my healthy, well-packed meals. (Not to mention I had several new "toys" and recipes all prepared for school to begin again. Ahem.) Its difficult for her as the friends she wants to sit by are "hot lunchers." So she has to choose between good food and good company. There are so many things that school does wrong when it comes to lunchtime, in my opinion! (Like the fact that they aren't allowed to talk...)

G was totally pumped about school starting. Kindergarten is only half-day and she didn't seem worried about leaving home for that amount of time. She HAS had a serious case of "Kindergarten Grumps" this week. I know it is rather typical, but still not easy to live with. I hope she settles into the swing of things in the next couple weeks.

It took G less than a week to get into a little "situation" at school. On Tuesday she apparently told another little boy - in no uncertain terms - to vacate a friend's chair and was rewarded with 4 long scratches on her arm and an elbow to the nose for her troubles. When she told J about the incident she described it as follows, "Dad! A boy in my class scraped the skin off of my body today!" No drama here. Nope. No sirree. She handled it well and went to tell the teacher instead of retaliating. She wasn't, however, sure about returning to school the next day. "Mom, I think I might need a little break from Kindergarten now." Fortunately, the next day was a positive one and she is giving the boy another chance. She even apologized to him for "how she said her words" all on her own.

Overall, not a bad first week of school. I can't believe how big they are. It will surprise no one to learn that I haven't managed to spend one of these mornings at home yet. We are hiring a new staff member at the office and the faith formation program that the girls participate in at church lost the Director 2 weeks ago. Basically I have bounced from drop-off and pick-up at school to the office to the church. My house will be clean one day, right?