Kid Free Days!

First Day of School!

Woo hoo! Today was the first day in roughly forever that all of the kids have been in school ALL day! The quiet in the house during the school day was deafening. It's amazing how much more time is in the day without all the arguing, fighting, whining, begging, and general kid-ness in it!

Amber went to school first and I think she was the most nervous because she was starting middle school. It was really her first experience in the "move around from class to class" environment. She made some friends and I think she will do fine. I think she will get a little overwhelmed when all the work starts to be assigned in earnest. But, she'll be fine in the end.

The hardest part about Emily and Carmen's school is the traffic. The city had been working last school year on the street that the school is on. They crept closer and closer to the school, and then, right at the end of the school year, they closed off the main intersection. It was timed perfectly so that they could work on the roads right next to the school during the summer and be all good to go by this fall. It didn't happen that way. I don't think they did much work at all during the summer and so now, the main road to the school is all torn up. This drives all of the traffic down our little road to get to the school. So now, instead of it being safe for the kids to bike to school, they have to deal with twice as much traffic! Crap.

Also, the school lets Carmen out of class 30 minutes before Emily, effectively screwing up the pick up schedule. We can pick Carmen up, come home, wait 10 minutes, or go pick Carmen up and wait at the school for 30 minutes. Crap. Oh well, it works out in the sense that all the kids are in school all day anyway!

So, here's to kid-free days!