And so it (school) begins

August 21, 2015 By

The first day of school for the kids was a success! Or rather, it wasn’t a complete failure, which is almost the same as being a success, right?

Both kids have excellent teachers, which is such a relief after Hadley’s academic nightmare last year. Bode was excited about everything regarding fourth grade while Hadley was just excited to come home after. They were both excited about doughnuts for breakfast.

Their mid-morning sugar crash is no longer my problem.

They usually take the bus but I took them to school. Bode happily posed with his teacher. 

  You can get away with this in fourth grade but not in oh-so cool sixth grade.
I waited outside the doors with Hadley until the bell rang as she nervously surveyed the crowd. She was one of the tallest girls but some boys are finally starting to catch up. It’s been three years since she was at this school and though she recognized a lot of kids, she wasn’t really friends with any of them. How do I know? She would have ditched me in a heartbeat. The good news is one of her best friends Alex is in her class and I’m hoping she gets settled sooner than later.
As for Bode, he had the time of his life and knows every single kid in his class (a bonus of being at the same school since kindergarten). He’s reunited with his bestie Brody as well as his friends Curtis and Noah.
Each of the kids was asked to share two interesting things about their summer. He talked about going to Canada to visit his cousins. Fine. That makes sense. And then he could have divulged any number of things. Doing an Adventure Race. His birthday. Going to Cub Scout Twilight Camp. Flying home from Utah all by himself on an airplane.
But noooooo, Item No. 2 was that he was bitten at the same time by two different wasps on my parent’s deck.
I guess he was going for dramatic effect.

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