Nearest and Dearest: School Days 2012-2013

The summer flew by much too quickly for either the girls liking or my liking. It's hard to believe that summer is over (even though it technically is not over for another month). The girls are in 4th, 7th and 9th grade this year which I find completely unbelievable.

Just yesterday I was saying that they were 3, 6, and 9 years old and now they are double that plus a few.

Our schedule is a bit different this year. Maddie and Destiny will leave for the bus at the same time around 7:15 and they get on about 5 minutes apart for the elementary and high school bus.

Abby's schedule remained the same as last year. She needs to leave at 8:25 to catch the middle school bus. We were not sure what to do with Abby. Abby hates being alone at home and it was always fine before this year because she had Destiny at home. Abby had the option of going to the neighbors but that had three kids getting ready to leave before 7:15 and Abby at the neighbors house which while okay, was not ideal. Abby and the neighbor girl do well together in very, very small amounts but every day I knew would strain the relationship. We were up to the first day of school with no answers and then.....

One of Abby's very best friends from Elementary School has a mother who is a teacher in a high school close to us and had sent her daughter for 6th grade to the middle school closest to that high school. Her daughter didn't have a good year and so this year she switched her to Abby's middle school. Every morning she drops her off at our house just after Destiny and Maddie leave and the two of them eat breakfast together and get ready to together and leave together. The perfect answer to prayer.

The first few days have gone well. Destiny was a bit nervous those first few days as she navigated around an entirely new school and one that was twice the size of her old school but she has settled in nicely and seems to be making friends and enjoying cross country with new teammates. Abby was the one we were worried about after her year last year but she ended up in classes with friends this year and has lunch with one of her very best friends and she could not be happier. Maddie, my go-with-the-flow child, seems to be doing just fine in 4th grade with her new teacher.

Here to another wonderful school year, 2012-2013