Summer comes to a very abrupt end in our household. Not only does Callie have to go back to school, Carter goes back to daycare and Kerry goes back to work. We did a good job of going out with a bang though. My mom came down and we managed to go to the aquarium and the zoo and had a thoroughly enjoyable final weekend. For the first day of school I took the day off so that I could help Callie with the change. She was excited to go back but very apprehensive as well and I knew it was going to be a tough morning.
We had a few things prepped to help. Barb had ordered her new backpack from the Disney store in Edmonton. (The store in Vancouver had sold out.) It was surprisingly cheap. Lesson learned to buy school supplies before the last week of school. I had also planned a trip to Ricky's for breakfast. We did this when she started kindergarten and she still remembered. Things went well until Callie discovered that we weren't going to breakfast till after school. (School was only from 10:00a to 11:00a) It took about 30 minutes of convincing but I finally managed to get her there on time.
Carter was much easier. At least for Carter. Much tougher on Kerry of course. He took his new cars lunch kit that he got from Kerry's friend Melissa and had no problems at drop off time. He has a friend named Taven and as soon as they saw each other it was like they hadn't been apart for the last two months. He only had a half day as we picked him up for breakfast too. When I went to pick him up he turned to his friends and said "My Daddy is taking me to breakfast!" and then ran to get his coat. Nice that the simple things seem to go so far.
No comments:
Post a Comment