Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Happy Mother's Day!!!

Well, the day has finally arrived!! My favorite Mother's Day of the year!! The first day of school. This year 60% of my children are off to school. All three of them were excited to get up and get off to school (although I am sure not nearly as excited as me!!) This year a new elementary school was built and our school is now down to a more manageable number of kids of about 450 instead of 750!! The kindergarteners don't have to have lunch in the hallway!!
The happy group of school kids!! (Zack is posed that way in an attempt to hide the toothpaste on his shirt!!)
Taylor of course has to show off her Shane from "Camp Rock" bookbag!! Taylor is in sixth grade this year!!! Wow!! Overnight outdoor ed!! I'm not too sure about that!! She is also one of 5 kids chosen to be in the core group of morning announcement crew!! Gee back when I went to school the old lady in the office read them over the intercom. Now it is a full closed circuit broadcast on the school TV's.
Chris picked this shirt out with his Aunt Trish this summer for kindergarten. They decided that chicks would dig it!!! Great!! Only problem is that on the second day of school he asked where it was. I said it was dirty. He wondered what he would wear then. That is his Kindergarten shirt. I think he thought he had to wear it everyday!! I think a uniform would work for him!!

Obviously Zack takes his fashion sense from Uncle Jon!! I guess when he hits about the high school level he will try to get all GQ!! He didn't even care that he had the big toothpaste stain in the middle of the shirt. I washed it off and he still wanted to wear that shirt with the water spot!! Whatever!! He is happy to be off to school and back with his friends.
There will surely be a picture to follow but, I have also joined the back to school crew. I have joined the ranks of the elite group of "Lunch Ladies". Yes that is right, I have picked up the ladle and the hair net (actually a visor and a smock, and apparently the ladle is called a spoodle) I am officially a lunch lady. Of course Zack was cool with it and Taylor was mortified (As was my niece Ashley who apparently thinks my sole motivation in doing it is to ruin her life, yes she lives in another state) But today when I was squirting out the salad dressing and putting the cookies on each tray, Taylor was the one who peeked around the door to wave at me!!!
I will be sure to get a photo up ASAP!!