We met Riley's kindergarten teacher tonight ... Mrs. Bush. She seems very energetic and sincere, as kindergarten teachers should be. She has the room all decorated in Texan/Cowboyish stuff ... very cute! For all of my Aggie readers, she is an alumna of A&M. This is her first year to teach ... brand new teacher at a brand new school. I went ahead and signed-up to be Room Mom. Not sure what this will all involve, but I am up for it. I figured that I don't work and will just have Victoria at home with me during the day, so I can probably manage to do it. It can't be any harder than working 55 hours a week with a husband in law school and shuffling a 3 year old from sitter-to-sitter (been there, done that, survived).
I am still not looking forward to school starting. It didn't help that I heard a Mom cussing at her 5 year old during meet the teacher for something that wasn't really that big of a deal. I know we all have different parenting styles, but I think that leaving the potty mouth at home isn't too much to ask. I am not an advocate for cussing at your kids either ... there is a better way to get their attention than that. Anyway, I digress. I know that Riley will do well. He is very excited about school starting. Tonight was a bit much on him with all the parents there and the chaos, plus he has some fever, so he didn't have as good as a time as we hoped. Hopefully he will be ready and well by the time Monday comes. I am excited for him.
He is all set. We have the messenger bag (got that instead of a backpack, that is what Indiana Jones uses), the lunch box (well they aren't really boxes anymore, more like bags) and we dropped off all the school supplies. That was a mission in and of itself ... school supply shopping. I was so excited to go do it, but it turned out to be very stressful. Between me and my mom, we went to 5 different store to find colored construction paper and manilla paper. I finally found it at Office Depot. They were so great there. As soon as I walked in, one of the guys that worked there asked me what I was looking for, he knew where everything was and there wasn't hardly anyone there. It is settled ... I will be doing all of my school supply shopping there from now on.
Three more days left (sigh, sniff, sniff).
2 comments:
Oh Kim! I'm getting teary thinking about it too. I remember the day Mr. Riley made his arrival... I can't believe what a big boy he is now! Jack's starting preschool on Wednesday and I'm surprised at how emotional I am about it. I feel ya!
Oh, and praise God he has an Aggie for a teacher! Gig 'em!
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