The First Day of School...sort of...

So, this first day of school seems to have a sense of deja vu to it...but I'll get to that in a minute.



Cassidy headed off to her first day of preschool this morning. She was awake before I could get her up, she actually had her socks on when I saw her (I was so proud). She only goes to preschool 3 days a week from 8:30-12, but Ryan has to take her to school since I can't be in 3 places at once (2 at once, isn't a problem) dropping all the girls off for school. So, since Ryan has to take her, he has to drop her at before care so he can be at work by 7am. She was excited and peppy and headed off to school with our standard Cassidy enthusiasm. Ryan said she was a little teary at drop-off, but pretty soon her boy Sam joined her for breakfast and she settled down and had a great day!



Erin and Katie headed back to another year at Bellalago Academy. Aside from an hour to drop them off and an hour and a half to pick them up, not much changed. I think we'll avoid the car riders loop except when necessary for rainstorms. Just opened near the school is a Walgreens, Publix and McDonald's. I'm seriously thinking I'll pick them up at Mickey D's every day. As the car loop is RIDICULOUS!!!!! They had good days. Erin is jazzed about being in a different building, being on the second floor and changing classes this year. It's hard to believe she's in fifth grade. Katie has a great teacher who is pretty familiar with her from last year. Ms. Toy (great name for a teacher, huh???) has a classroom that connected to Erin's former 4th grade teacher's classroom, so whenever Erin and Katie would stay after school with Mackenzie, Katie would go visit Ms. Toy. So, she was excited to get her this year.



Alison, only a month away from being 13, headed back to Horizon Middle School for the first day of 7th grade. As far as I can tell, she LOVES her teachers so far. She's yet to live through "gold" day, since today was a "blue" day. She is in Advanced reading, science and math (I don't remember if she's in adv. social studies). She also has sewing and PE for her electives. She's going to try out for cheerleading next week.



So, remember how I said we are sort of having deja vu? School was canceled for tomorrow. Why? Well, we live in Florida...we start school during Hurricane Season. There's not a hurricane out there, but Tropical Storm Fay is making landfall as I type on the south west coast. While it's not a strong nor particularly organized storm, it has the potential for some miserable rain, wind and since we're on the "dirty" side of it, the possibility for tornadoes is out there. Just when we were fixing all the damage of the 2004 hurricane season on our house...nice timing, huh? This is the 3rd year of 4 that we've missed school during the first week due to hurricanes.



So, we'll try again Wednesday or maybe Thursday for our second "Fay" of school.



I'll post pictures later on.



Laurel