One Happy Family: Exactly One Year Later

1st Day of School ~ 4th grade and 6th grade

It seems that I feel the blogger buzz around the same time each year! I haven't posted for exactly one whole year! That is crazy! Of course, with my job I have have been extremely busy which keeps me away from the computer (for recreation purposes).

For today I will post about the days biggest event: the First Day of School! Hard to believe that my baby girl is going to be in 6th grade and Domenic will be in 4th. Only a week away and we will have not only a child in the oldest grade of elementary school, but our baby will be in Kindergarten! He so badly wanted to start with his brother and sister this morning, but has to wait one more week (kindergarten assessment is the first week). He goes for his assessment on Thursday and has been studying to get ready!

Domenic wasn't sure that he wanted to go to school. He has been nervous and scared and worried that certain boys would be in his class room and would tease him. Yesterday we discovered that his best friend is in the same class with him again this year (these 9 year old boys spent 2 hours on the phone together!). This morning we also found that the boys he has been unsure about are in the same class as well. Instead of problems though, they ran up excited to see him, gave him big hugs, high 5's, and spent the rest of the time in line chatting about all that they had done over the summer. I think that my boy just doesn't realize how much everyone loves to be his friend. I left happy and sure that he was going to have a great day!

Alexis squealed like only a sixth grader can and she and her friends created a "weirdo's" club, wearing their 1990's florescent outfits (I swear they looked exactly like I did when I was in 6th grade!) and were ready to rule the school. Scary!

Now I am sitting at home with only Skyler again, listening to my Wicked CD and trying to start blogging again! I also need to get to cleaning up after a summer of 3 kids at home, and get into an exercise routine as well. Don't forget that work needs to fit in here as well. *sigh* So much to do, where is the motivation to do it? But the excitement of a new school year, getting back into routines, and learning is enough to get me going! So here's a cheer to the 1st day of the 2012-2013 school year!