First Week of School

We got first day of school pictures again this year. Yippee!

Some thoughts:
It doesn't matter that we got all the kids up early for the first day of school. One child still forgot their schedule and had to come back, one almost drove off without their mask (and did forget their water bottle), and another couldn't find their backpack for a while. At least I can say I made them a yummy breakfast (breakfast burritos) before school. I don't expect that to happen very often. Thank you, Jeremy for getting cold cereal at the store.

I had my nice breakdown less than an hour after the last kids went off to school.
I always have a lot of homework the first week of school (lots of disclosure documents to read and sign and getting to know you sheets to fill out). Of course later there's the helping kids with homework.
There are plenty of things to be grateful for. My kids like school and are good students.
It was so quiet that first day with four kids gone at school. Jeremy was doing work emails and Jet was concentrating on eating when I noticed the quiet around lunch time.
Lucky's teacher sent him home with a little package of donuts and a new book. The first thing I heard when he came in was him exclaiming that he liked his teacher.

That evening we went for a drive up Provo Canyon.

Lucky had a praying mantis on his shirt so when we got it off and put it in the grass, Nichole got some good pictures of it. That was not so easy to do since it was the same color as the grass.

When we got home, everyone got to talk to Grandma and Grandpa on the phone to tell them how the first day of school went.

Since it is Jr. Jr.'s teacher's first year teaching, Jr. Jr. wanted to do something special for her to let her know she did a good job on her first day. He wrote her a note and had Jeremy make a balloon apple for him to take to her. Lucky wrote a note for his teacher, too, even though she's been teaching for a lot more years than Jr. Jr.'s teacher.

By the end of the first week, everyone was exhausted. Lucky was happy to bring home a bat toy he earned for good behavior. He then proceeded to fall asleep on the floor while reading a book.

He fell asleep on the couch the next day while plenty of things were going on around him.

Nichole and Jr. both took after school naps on some of the days.
The boys were cute during the weekend and built a blanket fort in the living room with stuffed animal walls.

But we did it. We survived the first week of school.