Flip Flop Flap

There we were, just standing at the school bus stop, when dear ol' mom (me!) happened to just look down at my lil' diva's feet. And lo and behold but what do I see...

Flip Flops!!

Now, any good parent knows that flip flops are completely against school dress code.

So, off the girl goes running to the house before I can get another word out.

Only problem is that dear ol' mom (me again!!) now spots the bus a'coming.

At my shout of "Bus!!!", the child puts it in reverse and pushes full speed ahead to the bus while the bus driver and dear ol' mom (ok, you know who this is by now, right?) laugh up a storm.

Anywho, the end of this story was going to be an inner debate on whether to take her a change of shoes, wait for a call from the school then take her some shoes, or (my pick) hope they just let her go to school and send a politely worded note home about the dress code.

But what happened was even better.

I was just rolling back into the house when a school bus pulls right up front. Not surprising, considering we live on a busy street practically at the corner of a stop light.

No, what was surprising was that lil' diva was rushing down the steps and into the house to retrieve the tardy school shoes. 

Yes, the school bus driver had driven her back to fetch them

And, yes, she rocks!!

I love our school bus driver.

She is my new hero.

School Weekend Countdown

Woo Hoo!!!

In just four...count 'em...1.2.3.4...days the children will be back in school.

On Thursday, the kids got their first official look at the new middle school. It was awesome. All of the teachers and staff was nice and encouraging, which is always good. And a few of them recognized my kids from their prior school and from the Child Life Center. I'm actually excited about that because I wanted them to know at least somebody and their weren't too many kids in the 8th grade attending the meet-n-greet.

The classes sound good too. Not my children's first choices because we didn't get the Wait List call until mid-August and all of the best were, of course, taken by then. But, it is pretty close to what they would have been studying at the prior school anyway, so, eh, no biggee. On the plus side, 5 out of 7 classes are credit bearing for high school. Yes!!

Friday, we visited with the 5th graders school. Some warm, comfortable feeling as prior years so I'm happy. Of course, Baby Girl went all shy on the teachers as if she hadn't been there for 6 years now. Lol. Kids can be so funny sometimes.

For example, yesterday, the 13-year-old, Mr. Too-Cool-for-School himself, was prancing around the house in his new school uniform, tie and all. Methinks he caught the enthusiasm fever on Thursday. Let's hope his enthusiasm remains constant for the entire school year.

More shopping to do today and tomorrow. Send the boy's out to get their hair cut. Purchase clothes for the Lil' Diva.

And then on Tuesday, wave (tearfully, uh huh) good-bye as the bus carries them off to their new set of adventures.

~Ms. Katrina