Registering the girls for school this year was a chaotic process. I probably shouldn’t expect any less, but I guess I was being optimistic that it would be a smooth transition.
Meet the Teacher Night for the elementary school was while I was in NY, and Aaron didn’t go. Not that I blame him, first of all he was working nights, so the evening it took place he was at work. Secondly, I’d have felt like a weird creeper if I were a man going to open house with no kids.
The the kids and I went over to the school several days before it started. I was hoping to register the girls and get all the paperwork out of the way if at all possible. We were told to come back on the first day of school to enroll them. OK, no big deal.
The first day of school we show up and wait around for ages in the office, while people came in and out. I told the lady at the front desk why we were there when we arrived, and she ducked into an office. 25-30 minutes later, someone else came out and asked me why I was there. I told her. She points to another lady at a desk to the side of the front desk who was chatting with a cafeteria worker the entire time I was there. Because of how small the office was, I can assure you this was not an important school-related discussion.
Another 15 minutes goes by and they wrap up their conversation and decide to help me. Now, before I go on, I want to remind you that I have all four kids with me in this tiny office, and let you know that that there is a sign out front:
I probably don’t have to tell you how frazzled I was at this point or that I had absolutely no patience left.
When I finally talk to the woman who is to enroll my girls, she hands me two giant folders of papers, one for each kid- that need to be filled out before they can attend. I KNEW I needed to do something like this to register them! That’s why I tried to go BEFORE school started.
Then there was the storm, and with it power outages. We live just a couple blocks from the school and I believe they were affected for almost as long as we were. I know for a few days it was closed, and then they had a two hour delay for at least one day. Then there was Labor Day weekend.
BUT school is now in session and in full swing, so here is my official, albeit late, ‘First Day of School’ post!

- Lili’s first day of 4th grade………..Mia’s first day of 1st grade
The girls both like their new school, and even knew some of the kids in their classes already. There are several little girls in the neighborhood in Mia’s class, and a girl Lili’s played with on the playground in hers.
I packed their lunches, like always. They are using their Easy LunchBoxes again, but I did get them new SIGG water bottles this year. We went to the commissary the day before and I let the girls pick what they wanted in their lunches. They had bologna & cheese sandwiches that I cut with a puzzle sandwich cutter, carrots and dip in the small container, Teddy Grahams and yogurt covered raisins, a frozen Go-Gurt, and a little gummy candy.
The boys REALLY miss the girls while they are at school all day. And I really miss the extra hands! We have yet to get into a good routine, but I’m sure it will happen soon. They get very excited to pick their sisters up each afternoon.
This is getting long, and I haven’t even touched on the hair dying adventures of the night before school started… I’ll save that for another entry!

Ryan helping Lili with her things after the first day of school.






































