School Days

WHAT A CRAZY DAY!
Here it is in a nutshell.  (I hope it doesn't bore you too much.)

We left the house at 8am and headed to Hull Middle School to get Zach's 6th grade schedule, meet his teachers, and get his supply lists.  I figured this might take a while because I wanted to make sure that Zach felt comfortable with knowing where his classes are and how to get from one to the other.  Thankfully, it didn't take very long at all!  A new middle school opened this year to relieve Hull so there are not near as many students.  Because of that, the school was able to streamline the classes.  All of Zach's core classes are right next to each other.  The only reason to go off of his hall is to go to his Connection classes.  That should be easy.  He was relieved!  He felt comfortable very quickly, so it was off to take care of Elijah.

We left the middle school at around 8:40 am and headed down the street to Parsons.  We found out what bus Elijah would be riding and headed off to the cafeteria to get him a car rider number, if I should ever have to pick him up.  That's when it started.  We've been at Parsons for the last 7 years so we know quite a few of the teachers.  We immediately saw some teachers that we know and started catching up.  (Everyone was surprised and how tall JJ has gotten!)  We got the number and headed off to meet Elijah's teacher.  She was very nice.  We filled up his desk, filled out some paperwork, explained Elijah to his teacher and headed off to see everyone else.  We ended up seeing every teacher that each one of them had ever had that was still at the school.  It was fun and they were all surprised at how the boys had grown.  It took a while, but not near as long as I thought it would.  We were done by 10:30.  Our plan was to have lunch and then go for JJ at 2pm.

So, we headed up to Office Depot to get some supplies for Zach that he needed.  We called Steven and picked him up so he could go to lunch with us.  We headed over to Johns Creek to take the kids to Jet's Pizza (yum!).  Since we were so ahead of schedule that we were able to leisurely enjoy lunch and chit chat.  The kids brought Steven up to speed on everything we had done and learned so far.  We finished up and dropped Steven back at work around 1pm.  That meant we had an hour before we had to be at the middle school for JJ.  So we headed home.  We took the dog out and gave him some attention.  I got all of Zach's supplies ready (now that we know what he needs) and put them in his backpack.  By then, it was time to head out again.

At 2pm we headed BACK to the middle school and got JJ's schedule.  Thankfully, all of his classes are close together too so he won't have far to go.  (Last year he was walking a half marathon between classes!)  We got supply lists, saw some friends and compared schedules, met teachers, looked into Chess Club for Zach and then headed BACK to Office Depot to get some things that JJ needed.  Finally, about 3:30pm, we returned home.

Everyone is bushed!  I sit here now, reclined in my Sleep Number bed watching TV.  Finally!  Rest for the weary!