{"id":645,"date":"2008-09-02T14:40:42","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T19:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=645"},"modified":"2008-09-02T16:07:11","modified_gmt":"2008-09-02T21:07:11","slug":"school-days-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=645","title":{"rendered":"School days again…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The public schools here in Alabama started back in early August, Brian started last Monday, and today was finally Analise’s first day back at school.\u00a0 She’s in the 4-year-old kindergarten program, Tuesday through Friday.\u00a0 To be honest, I’ve been pretty ready to send her back to school.\u00a0 She’s very busy, and we’re having a hard time finding enough creative activities to keep her out of trouble around here.\u00a0 And she loves the social aspect of school.\u00a0 And I love having one-on-one time with Josiah.\u00a0 He plays very well by himself these days, too, so that gives me some much needed time to get things done for myself.\u00a0 It will be a big change for us to have 4 days instead of the 2 days a week we’ve had the last 2 years, but it will be a good preparation for kindergarten next year.<\/p>\n

Kindergarten!\u00a0 Crazy to think that next year at this time, I’ll have one child in school 5 days a week at kindergarten, and Josiah will be in preschool 2 days a week.\u00a0 What in the world will I do with 2 days entirely to myself?\u00a0 I can’t even imagine all the things I might actually get accomplished!\u00a0 Still, the thought of Analise in kindergarten tugs at my heart.\u00a0 I can’t believe how fast she’s growing up!<\/p>\n

A glimpse from last year’s first day of school…<\/em><\/p>\n

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Brian walks Analise to school on Tuesdays and Thursdays when he’s available.\u00a0 Believe it or not, she still rides in the backpack, as she has has since she started 2 years ago.\u00a0 They love their walk over!\u00a0 Josiah usually hates to see her go on the backpack adventure without him, but this morning, he and I joined them for part of the walk, so there were no tears.\u00a0 Then we both enjoyed our walk… I, particularly, enjoyed pushing just 1 child in the stroller… 50lbs of weight versus 85+! Josiah and I also went to the mall to get him some new shoes, picked up some yummy Auntie Annie’s pretzel stix, then played with the Thomas train table at the bookstore. It’s so fun to chat with him these days! And it sure is easy taking one child out and about, rather than 2!<\/p>\n

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(Added by Brian): Here’s her “first day of school” picture from 2006, too!<\/p>\n

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