It is that time of year again. The time when my children abandon me during the day to further their education. Stupid education. This year Natalie and Nichole will be freshman in High School. I do this every year. As the girls get older I get floored that they are as old as they are. So here it goes... Holy Crap I Have High Schoolers. Ahh that feels so much better. My girls are also starting their first year at seminary. Luckily for them they can take it during the day. Unluckily for them they have to take summer school to make up for the missing credits that they will be lacking at the end of their high school career. Besides the core classes Natalie is taking Band and Seminary. Nichole is taking Sculpture the first half of the year then Photography the second half and seminary. On the first day of school I went downstairs to get them up at the time they will be normally getting up at (by the way my and 6:05 a.m. do not, I repeat DO NOT get along) and Nichole was till in bed. They both got everything they needed to get ready and Nate took them to school. This is the first time that I have ever not taken them on their first day of school. It was really kind of weird.
Nichole rode the bus home from school and told me about her day. Nichole had a good day. She has her best friends mom for English and her YW leader's day for World History. She only has 6 people in her seminary class and 4 of them are all in the same ward. Which happens to be 2/3 of the youth in our ward that go to seminary.
Natalie had a game after school so I didn't get to talk to her until after her game. She liked her first day of school. She got lost one time but a teacher was there to help her out. Her seminary class has the kids that carpool over from the other school here in Eagle River. Because of this her class is packed with kids. She has a lot of classes with her friends that are older.
After the girls were sent off for the day it was time to get Tyler and Ella ready. Tyler is going into middle school this year. He's a 6th grader. The unfortunate thing about the middle school this year is that they didn't have any schedules or lockers ready for the kids because they had some last minute rescheduling because of a last minute change made by school administration in the district. Tyler had to go into 6th grade never having dealt with lockers or with a schedule. He didn't know where is was going or how to open his locker. He had to pick up his schedule. He was extremely anxious and sick to his stomach. Poor guy. Turns out his day went a lot better then it started out for him. He has several of his friends in every one of his classes. He is taking band and art for his extra classes this year. He is going to play percussion in band.
Ella is going into the 3rd grade this year. As the first day of school approached Ella would ask us not to talk about it because she would get so nervous. Two days before school started we went to check who her teacher was. She was ecstatic to learn that her teacher was Mr. Cano. Ty's 4th grade teacher. Mr. Cano has this program in his class where you can earn Cano cash for doing various things. It is spent like money too. You have to pay Mr. Cano if you have to use the restroom an excessive amount of times or if you get in trouble for something. But he pays you for various things too. Like handing in your homework on time and being quiet. If you go into debt he has you make it up by staying in from recess and stuff like that. Ella is excited because in her first week of school she had already earned 22 Cano dollars. She loved her first day of class and was ecstatic to see all of her friends again.
On the second day of school she rode the bus. She is the only kid that is picked up at this stop so I go out there with her every morning. Boy do I not look forward to the cold, snowy mornings.
This was a pose that Ella insisted on doing. She is such a ham!
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