Did Abs survive the first day of school?

When I went to parent/teacher conferences last week, they gave me a few assignments for each of the girls.  Abs had to fill a bag with things that represented her, decorate a composition notebook, and write a journal entry for her expectations for the first day.


She filled the bag with no problem.  She used the old fisher price little people to represent each member of her family, which was a cute idea.  She was looking for a GI Joe for her dad, but couldn't find one.  She included some pictures, and of course a few plastic dinosaurs.  


One down...two to go.


She didn't want to decorate the notebook, but finally relented.  


A journal entry?  She summed everything up in three sentences:
        I do not like school.  School is boring.  I do not have any expectations.


Great.  I could have sat there and made her write more, but I figured they needed to know what they were dealing with.  


I was worried about what I would hear when I picked her up.  The elementary school at the Air Force Academy, was awful.  She was miserable, which made the rest of us miserable.  


Today, she walked out with a smile on her face, a stack of books to read, and no homework.  They don't believe in sending home busy work, which is wonderful.  They did lots of team building activities, everything was hands on, and she said the difference was between night and day.  


Em had a great first day as well, and I just love, love, love her teacher.  She's going to be an amazing and inspiring teacher for those kids.


I have personal training tomorrow, and I can't wait.  Next up--30 day challenges!  


Oh, and today was trash day--3 down, 49 to go!  

They Survived

Junior and I had a great day by ourselves just going to the gym, shopping and he took a long nap. I should have gotten one in too!

I picked the girls up and it was mass chaos. Finally found Abs and her teacher told me that she did "pretty well" and that she "had a problem with excessive talking". Maybe she gets that from my oldest sister? Luckily she survived and didn't end up with a trip to the office. She told me that her color was light blue, but I am not sure how many colors are on the spectrum. At her old school she could blow through the colors by 11 am, so I am hoping that she has improved some or that they have more colors.

Em did a great job and had a lot of fun. She's just excited that they have two recesses and that they only had learn each other's names today. I'm sure homework will kick in soon enough and she will be tired of school. I used to love homework. I was a nerd back then.....I only wish I had kept that outlook.

After we got the girls we had to go look for the hard to find black and white Mead composition notebook. We finally managed to track it down after we had a car full of cold things from Walmart, at another location, with 100 degree temperatures. I don't know if the ice cream will ever be the same.

Only 4 more days till my birthday!

First Day of School

A few years ago my mom and I were at Sam's and we noticed they had a ton of those plastic bodies that the swimsuits come on. Of course we needed them for something and they have sat in my closet ever since. The girls found them and dressed them with their school uniforms so that they would be ready to go in the morning. At least they are being used now!

Abs and Junior getting ready to leave for school.

Abs, Junior and Em.

Abs--1st grade and Em--4th grade

When I woke the girls up this morning Abs started chanting "First day of school! First Day of school!" Junior was up really early this morning and the girls flew out of bed to get dressed and were ready to go well before it was time. They can eat breakfast at school so they opted for that and Junior and I stayed with them. We had practiced Ab's lunch ID number and when she got up there she got confused and couldn't remember it and didn't believe Em, who tried to help.

They ate breakfast and then I dropped them off at their classrooms. They were both so excited and couldn't wait. Can't wait to hear how they both did!

On a side note, I sent DH a pic of the kids on the cell phone so that he can see them ready to go to school. He has never made it to the first day of school for either one. He'll be gone next year too.