Back to School Time | Personal Alert

So we have started another school year. SO surreal. Where did 1st and 3rd grade go?! Actually where did the summer go?! It seems like we just got out of school.  My daughter is now a 4th grader. That is so strange to me because I still remember my 4th grade year. I remember Mr. Macioni. He was one of my favorite teachers. He had one of those really deep dimples in his chin and he loved to read aloud to the class. It’s funny I actually remember a lot about back to school. I LOVED school as a kid. I remember the school clothes shopping and the anticipation that it brought. My mother never let us wear our new clothes until school so it was so exciting to lay out our clothes the night before. I loved the way school supplies and the inside of a new back pack smelt. Weird I know.  And now its my own kiddo’s turn. My daughter insisted this year on picking her own clothes out for her first day. I was a bit bummed because it is something I have always enjoyed a little bit TO Much but being 9 years old I totally understand they are finding themselves and their own personal style and I would never hinder that. My son Wesley who is going to be 7 this November is our cautious child. We were fully expecting him to be a handful because he hates back to school but even he was excited. I do think with the power outage we experienced recently (and that I will be blogging about here) actually did us a huge service. The kids got a little more summer because they pushed the very first day of school back and we got to really spend some quality time with them as well. We had gone five days with no power as a result of the storm and we had to be very creative to keep busy and not think about what we didn’t have. We had so much that really it would have been a waste to not take advantage of the extra time with each other. The very last day, day five the kids had been playing hard in the front yard and were filthy. I knew a cold bath would be unnecessarily painful so we actually booked a hotel and that very night (of course) I got a text from our neighbor stating the power was fully restored lol! We enjoyed the two nights we booked though as a mini cation and enjoyed the pool and the extra quality time.

Anyhow the first day of school was awesome. We had decided that we were going to purchase an additional car on a whim because we didn’t want the kids to have to take the bus all year (our oldest has JRA and its hard on her legs in the colder seasons.) and as an anniversary gift to my husband we got him a shiny new Honda Accord! Okay not NEW its def preowned but new to us! It also happened to pour the very first day which really drove us even more to get that car. All the days standing out in the rain with four kids at the bus stop was less then appealing to say the least lol!

I thought I would share a few photos. I confess I was kind of a slacker this year but I couldn’t not take photos lol!