First Day of School

Today we started school.  We were all so very excited to begin.  The boredom of Summer had set in and we were missing the structure that school provides.  I have spent the last several weeks pouring over curriculum, blogs, and pinterest to gather all the information that would be useful for this years goals. 

Last night we all went to bed with smiles on our faces in anticipation for the very first day of school.  For two of the kids it was old hat,  gonna just start another year but they were excited to use their new supplies that had been set aside just for today.  One started Kindergarten today and his excitement was overflowing.  He told everyone for the past week that he saw that he was starting Kindergarten.  The youngest was just excited as everyone else was excited so something cool must be going on right?!?

With all this anticipation there was bound to be a mishap somewhere.  We all slept in!!!! That's right, every single one of us (including the hubby who needed to be at work) slept in.  My daughter who is our late sleeper woke to a quiet house and began to freak out.  She ran from room to room waking everyone to make sure they were all okay.  Once everyone was awake, we began to flutter around so that we could begin a day that really should have started two hours earlier. 



Once school began we flowed from one subject to another with ease and everyone had a great day.  We stayed on schedule (well, the altered schedule) and finished by nap time. 






I was so blessed when my husband asked the kids what they learned that they reiterated almost every point we had studied today.  I accomplished my goal today.  YEAH!!!! Now if the rest of the year will go this well we will have a marvelous year!