First day of school

Monday was Kathryn's first day of Kindergarten and Julian's first day in 3rd grade.

Kathryn was very excited to see her teacher again and to see what school would be like.

And Julian was excited to get back and see his friends. 2 of his good friends from last year are in his class again.

We walked Kathryn to class, but no one was there! We were pretty late... We met her class coming from the cafeteria, and she fell right into line and went to class. They stagger days for everyone, so there were only 5 kids there on her first day. She has not been back to school yet, but tomorrow she'll go along with her whole class, and everyday after that. Unfortunately, she is not as excited to go back tomorrow as she was the first day. She said she wants to stay home with me. I told her I won't be home either, and neither will Daddy (he's going back to work tomorrow!). I know she'll enjoy herself once she's there, but it's hard to make her do something she doesn't really want to do. I'm going to miss our time together....

I'm in school now too, and things are going pretty well. I am relieved that my classes this semester don't seem to be as demanding as last semester (so far). Of course this is only the 2nd week, so there's still a lot of time in this semester for things to get crazy. But so far, it's been wonderful - the only homework I've had is reading and studying my notes. Much better than the 2 or 3 hours each night last semester between math and Spanish! I did have my first speech for my public speaking class - I'm glad it's over with and I am already dreading my next speech, which will be in late September, I think. I'll be glad when this class is done!

It's not school, but Jason will also be going back to work tomorrow. He got a good report from the doctor at his 2nd post-op visit this week, so he will be on "light duty" for 2 weeks and then after that, no restrictions at all on what he should do. I'm worried about him going back, but I guess it was inevitable....

So we all seem to be getting back to somewhat normal routines, and our family summer break is officially over tomorrow.