EVERYONE in my house is FINALLY Back 2 School...

What day is it???? It's Hump Day - Wednesday!!!  Take a moment, wipe the sweat off your brow and take a deep breath because your week is half over!  

So I want to begin today by sharing a bit of good news- I start a new project assignment on Monday.  It may not seem like much, but it's actually HUGE around these parts!  So I am happy about that.  It's going to be a little hectic to prepare and I will have to leave home super early to get there, but I am ever so thankful for it!  

I also want to thank everyone who reads my posts.  That means so much to me and your comments make me smile!  I know they sometimes run the gamut (I warned of that in the intro that anything was fair game) but I try to always be my true, authentic self, even when it's not so pretty... So thank you!!!  I think I wanna do some sort of Random Act of Kindness (RAK); gotta figure that out a little more; stay tuned!

Back to the topic at hand - everyone is GONE!  *Doing my happy dance while seated at the computer with a cup of joe*  It's so quiet here after the flurry of morning activity.  And I can breathe and think without anyone calling my name or demanding something.  Lovely.

The Teen started school on Monday (which is actually late this year).  He is now a JUNIOR, making him officially an upperclassmen!  He's real laid back about it, and because he elected to go to public school instead of the fine private school I wanted, he gets to wear whatever he wanted (I relented since he's been in uniforms since he was 3 and the trek to the City for school would have been brutal on both of us... and I actually love his school).  I am so proud of him and hope that this is his best year ever!  I am looking forward to the things we have on deck for this year: continuing our driving lessons so he'll be ready to get his license come December, his 17th birthday next month, beginning our college visits so we're ahead of the curve for next year, those very rare moments when we connect over music, a television show or he actually wants/needs my input/advice - all of that!!!  So here's what the Teen's first day looked like (and I DO NOT understand this outfit at all, but he looks like all the rest of them from what I've seen):

So yeah.  Who knew that tall socks with shorts would make a comeback????  But there's my junior!  His first day went off without a hitch, except he was overly obsessed with whether the bus would come on time (it didn't last year...).  But all was well.

Today baby girl, otherwise known as the Tween, started school.  She's in 6th grade now, so the end of middle school (our schools are a little weird, her current school goes from 4th-6th grade, then the next school is 7th-8th grade, where most middle schools either start in 5th or 6th through 8th).  Did today go smooth? Hecky naw!  She is defiant to a fault sometimes; no matter what I say, she either does nothing or the complete opposite.  Drives me nuts!  Like yesterday (early, mind you) I told her to decide which bookbag she was going to use and take it to the office so we could start loading it up.  At 7:30 this morning, do you think it was done?  Nope... Told her to set the clock for 6:00, at 6:58 she was just getting up.  School started at 8:00... Then I realized I never got confirmation of her school schedule - which meant that I had to drive her today (now of course I was going anyway because I have to meet the teacher and all of that first day stuff, but still).  Then because she was moving so slowly, I didn't have time to fix her hair the way I wanted to.  *sigh*  But, we got the bag packed and her out of the house reasonably on time (we had to stop in the office anyway). So without further ado, here's my 6th grader:

Yes, I know the picture is fuzzy.  My camera was broken over the weekend and so now I'm relegated to taking photos with my phone until further notice.  And if she looks tall to you, she is!  She is officially taller than me and about the same height as her teacher!  Don't believe me?  Here she is with her teacher:  

See?  She is catching up to her brother; she is about to his jawline at the moment.  I'm hoping that her height slows down some.  I call her my Amazonian princess... Her school has a dress code, so that's why her outfit is so nondescript.  We are counting it down to when she can wear her own clothes to school!  I still find it hard to believe that she's in 6th grade sometimes; it seems like just yesterday we were starting Nursery 3 back at SCA (Salem Christian Academy) - the good old days!  I'm looking forward to more time with her also, as we explore our creative pursuits together (she's very talented, it's amazing sometimes).

So that's it.  Both of my not so little people are officially back in school!  No more shuttle service all over town going back and forth to summer camp and summer jobs, nope!  No more lazy evenings and late nights.  Back to bus schedules and early rising.  Back to life, back to reality (an ode to Soul II Soul, wanna listen?  Do so here.)  I pray that my children, and all of the other students, have a productive and safe year filled with learning new things and that they are fully prepared for what's to come.

So now I'm off to finish buying school supplies that I did not get and organizing the rest of my week.  Plus I have to start purging and packing and all of that good stuff in between the regular stuff I need to do (even though I haven't found a house yet).  Joy.  Back to reality for me too, lol!

Have all of your young people gone back to school (or are you yourself going back)? Either way, make it a great year!  Don't forget to "Holla @ Darvi!"  Be Blessed!