School DAZE

Today was the first day of school for us here. The do it really strange, everyone except the kindergartners get to stay for 1/2 day. The kindergartners only got to stay for a 1/2 hour. We met O's teacher and put her supplies away. She wanted to stay so badly. Tomorrow she will get her wish and mommy will cheer.

This is the first year that K went up to the school alone. She was very brave and didn't need me to go with her (sniff, sniff). Actually I could probably send O on the bus tomorrow and she'd be fine but I'm taking her so I will be fine. I've been counting down the days since she was born until she went to school. She's not naughty or anything, I've done it with all my kids, and now that it's here I'm a little sad. C and I will not know what to do with ourselves tomorrow. Actually we will, I just got a free Cold Stone coupon cuz my b-day is coming and we are going to celebrate!

So here are some pictures of the kids on their first day of school. C does not get to go for a few more weeks but wanted to be in the pic anyway. Both girls woke up this morning and thought since school started it should be cold so K wore long sleeves, and O wore a shawl. Crazy Kids.

You don't think I would let a day like today go by without a "Syndy" incident.... Well on the way out of the school parking lot I hit a pole with my car. Scrapped the entire back fender pretty bad. I was so embarrassed there were parents everywhere. I just looked back to make sure I didn't hit someones child and when I realized it was just a cement pole I drove away! I didn't stop to survey the damage until I got to my friends house. This incident was not as bad as the grocery store incident when C was born but it ranked right up there.

Ok, so now I have to tell the grocery store incident. It was my first outing with all 3 of my kids ALONE. C was only about 2 months old and I went grocery shopping. I had my list and did my shopping pretty uneventfully I was pretty proud of myself and thinking I was the best mom ever. Lot's of people had told me how much harder 3 was than 2 and I was thinking I had it completely under control. When I got to the register, with a boat load of groceries, and was about to pay I realized that I had no money. No debit card, no check book, no credit card, nothing. I was so embarrassed. The cashier says to me, "It happens all the time." So they put my whole basket in the walk-in fridge and I ran to State Farm to get a checkbook (because remember we lived outside of town) So now you know the "grocery store incident", not to be confused with the "canning wheat incident" I blogged about earlier this year.