First day of school (part 1)

I actually got Charlotte to school this morning, even though it still feels like it is a week early.  Aren't you proud of me?  Last night we spent over half an hour searching for the new bag o' bobby socks I bought her two weeks ago at Target.  Never did find the bag, so she's wearing Mac's socks today.  It's not that she doesn't have any of her own.  It's that her feet have grown so much over the summer that none of them fit.

Poor kid.  Because we were in such a hurry this morning, and because I didn't go and pick up the studio camera last night, the only keepsakes she will have of this day are crummy snapshots.  My mom set the kids up and I didn't even take the time to move them to a better location.  At least I fixed the red eye.

Bugs was so excited that she was couldn't sit still.  Have you ever watched bumblebees dance in their hives?  That is what she looked like: all wiggly and bouncy.  She chattered all the way to school -- "I will get to meet new friends and my new friends will think that I am smart and funny and also pretty and I'll tell them to call me Cheese because I want a good nickname and I think Cheese is a good name ex-specially when they meet my brother and then I can see he's Mac and I'm Cheese and then we'll all go to lunch together and mommy packed me a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and some blueberries and I'll share my blueberries with my friends because I am very nice and we will go out to the playground and we'll play on the toys and then we will come back inside and take a rest and I will close my eyes even though I don't really want to rest but I will listen to my teacher because she's the boss and because I am very polite...".  She used so much energy on the ride to school that she'll probably crash at about 9 am.

She has been waiting for this day for over a year.  "Real" school.  I remember their first day of school last year.  Her brother was in MWF pre-K and she was in Mother's Day Out one day a week.  His classroom had desks and school supplies.  Hers was free and easy, with lots of toys and a "circle time" rug, but not a desk in sight.  I remember her crying huge tears as I left, not because she was going to miss her sweet mommy so much, but because it wasn't what she expected.  "Why can't I go to real school???  Why won't you let me learn???"

Have I mentioned she is a major drama queen?  I have no clue who she got that from. 

So, quickly changing the subject because I can hear you all thinking, well now we know what she was like as a kid... .

We had a really good weekend.  Friday I had an order come in from a portrait session I shot in early June.  The family lives WAY out of state and I wasn't expecting a very good order -- web ordering never goes as well as in person sales do.  But it turned out to be double my sales average so it was a very nice surprise.  I had the weekend to myself for the first time in a long while.  My kids spent it with their paternal grandparents and most of my friends are out of town, so I raided the 4 for $20 bin at the video store and came home with a few new (to me) treasures.  Watched High School Musical for the first time and yes, Jen, I loved it.  And then yesterday after church, I picked up the kids and then Jenny came over to just hang out.  It was so much fun catching up.  Jen, you're welcome over here any time.  I promise I'll come back and share my MySpace Breakup story in a bit.