Chronicle of our 1st day of school:

We came home from Church last night, stopped off at walmart and got home at 10:30. Someone around here, we won't name any names (ahem, daddy) decided having ice cream when we got home would be a great idea. Yeah. So, the kids were in bed after 11pm. Hmm... Poor Superman was busy with paperwork for his job until after midnight. So, it was a late night, which of course starts our morning out a little rough.


I woke at 7:30 to pray and read.


Superkid actually woke up first at 8:00. He's one of the harder ones to get out of bed. So, as I made him breakfast we talked about the new school. :-D He's excited. Which is really good!!


Here's the sign I made on the whiteboard for today. Superkid loves the colors red, white and blue. (Although he informed me I should have done Red, then white, then blue. Instead of Red, blue, then white. Can't please em, I tell ya!)























Daddy walked out the door at 9:30 for work this morning. Superkid went running to the end of the street with his dog like he does most days. (He races Daddy's truck.)


When he came back he said he was still hungry. This kid really can eat. I only gave him two waffles, so I let him have some more.

I had him go outside to get his bible out from the car. Instead of coming straight in he began to talk to the neighbor for WAY too long (about his bike, etc.) eventually I called him in. It is now 10:00. Oh boy!


Ok. So, as he eats, I begin bible time with him.


11:20: Oh my... This has been one challenging day! It is not the work, which has actually been really fun! It's just circumstances. The entire morning my daughter has been crying. I think she is not feeling well. I haven't taken her temp, but she seems hot. So between her needing a lot of attention and my son being EXTREMELY distractable today, it has been challenging to say the least. However, in the midst of the trial we have completed - Bible, handwriting, and we did a pretest (we just went over verbally what he knows and I told him the ones he didn't.) We're trucking along. There just seem to be a few bumps in the road and some unexpected turns. :-D


12:20: We've been working on the application for an hour now. I gave him the option of stopping for awhile to take a break and come back to it, but he wants to finish. He's still working on his handwriting skills. It's soo nice and quiet and peaceful now that little one is napping. Poor her, she must not be feeling well. I prayed for her and she did seem to be feeling a little better. Hopefully she wakes refreshed!


1:00 - Finally completely finished with the application. Because it was something different he actually pressed through. It took A LONG time, but I'm proud of him for not complaining! :-)

LUNCH TIME!! And time for a much needed break.

---I just have to mention that this boy must be growing! He had a few waffles this morning, a half of a hamburger with fries, small frozen pizza a pudding and he's STILL hungry! (please disregard my unhealthy choices for my child. I'm going to use the excuse that I'm pregnant and I go for convenience more than anything recently. )


3:20 - YAY! We're almost done!! Superkid is working on his math, then we're done. Our geography book I had him read aloud and just asked a lot of questions as we went along. I am amazed everything we read today was new to him. He reads enough that I thought he had at least heard of many of those, but he said he learned a lot. Then we did science. We read and he balked a little about having to draw (he hates to color and drawing is second below that), but he did a great picture. I think he'll get more accustom to doing it as we make it a habit each day. The other three things we did he's been doing: our read-aloud, pocket full of pinecones (we have a few chapters left), english and now he's doing his math.

WE DID IT!!!!! YES!
It feels so good to be done and it was a great day overall.

By the way, Pickles wokeup feeling MUCH better and in a much better mood. So our afternoon went much more smooth. My son's mood never changed. I don't mind so much, because he's just excited and happy for his new school. He's been hyper and it has been hard to get his attention. (this is not very normal for him. He's a pretty mellow kid.) Anyway, all in all, everything went GREAT!

Thanks for sharing my day with me. :-D