Back in the Saddle Again...

Brace yourselves!!!!

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My baby girl started Jr. High.

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I know, I was just there myself and I don't know how it is possible that I have a daughter old enough to be in 7th grade.

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She had a 7th grade day before everybody else started. She was nervous and very excited and thankfully came home with a smile on her face. Her locker opened and she found all of her classes.

Then it was the first day of school for everybody else. And I don't like that Emilee is missing in the picture. She starts school over an hour before everybody else and is gone before the rest of the group gets up. I liked it best when I knew that they were all at the same school together.

With all the anticipation of the first day of school it didn't go as smoothly as we had hoped.
I waited all day for my kids to walk through the door and tell me about their amazing first days of school.
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After they didn't show up after school I talked to one of my neighbors and realized that we had some miscommunication about the carpool and my kids didn't get picked up. So I jumped in my car and hurried down to get them. When they realized that I wasn't coming Abbie and Max had started walking and I found them half way home.
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When they got in the car, Max immediately broke down and told me that it was the WORST day of his entire life and that he was never going back to school.
Abbie seemed to have a good day but was so concerned with Max and told me that I had to transfer Max into a different class tomorrow!




(Millie, one of Lucy's BFF's started 1st grade today and Lucy was so lonely without her buddies to play with. She must of asked 100 times when school would be out. She is counting down the days until Kindergarten starts next week.)


Abbie and Isabelle were ready for the big day.

3rd Grade

We also had a little Drama in the morning with Emilee.

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It being the real 1st day of school for Emilee, she set her alarm for 6:30 to get up and get looking her best.

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I was already up and heard her get up and turn off her alarm. I started making breakfast and getting stuff done thinking that she was up. At 7:15 when she hadn't come up stairs yet I went down to tell her that breakfast was ready and I found her dead asleep in her bed. When I woke her up all heck broke loose. Her carpool would be there in minutes and her plans of a curling her hair and having a good 1st morning went out the window. She threw on her clothes and ran out the door with lots of tears. We tried to take a 1st day of school picture with all the kids in the carpool but she was NOT in the mood. So this is a after school picture of the 1st day.
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Emilee is a lucky girl to carpool with all of these cute boys. They are her best buddies and they all walk home from school together every day.

This is the 2nd day of school, this time with a smile.

Thank heaven's she woke up on time today!!! Abbie even prayed for her last night because we all didn't want to experience that again!