First day of school post-mortem
Robert and Emmeline's first day of school was pretty uneventful, thank goodness.
The biggest trauma for us is making Bonnie and me wake up early to make sure the kids are ready. Bob's an early riser, so if you remind him enough, he will get ready. Emmeline, though, isn't so great in the mornings -- she'll sleep late if you let her. Fortunately, yesterday and today both of them were ready in plenty of time.
Since it's the first couple of days of school we're still trying to get the routine down for the bus. According to the schedule posted in the paper, the bus isn't supposed to be by until 7:30, but it was more like 7:26 today. Not a huge deal, since both kids were ready early, but I'm glad we're not doing the usual waiting-til-the-last-minute stuff that we found ourselves doing towards the end of last year.
James, meanwhile, starts on Friday, during an open house, only for an hour, then will go for his first regular day of full-day, five-day-a-week kindergarten beginning on Monday. His bus is almost an hour later than the other two -- the different elementary schools keep different schedules. So starting next week a fairly big chunk of our morning routine will be getting the kids ready for school and out the door.