I'm Home!

I have resigned from the Auto Club and will be working from home a lot now. I am excited to be able to help get the girls ready for school in the mornings now (instead of burdening Jeff with that each day - he stresses over the smallest things). Hopefully Kara will have an improved attitude at school (she has gotten in trouble for back-talking to the teacher and had to be placed on a behavior contract). I don't get it - I was not that way when I was little. I did not dare make a peep out of turn at school and wanted so much to have the positive attention of my teacher.... I have no idea where Kara gets this attitude from (although Jeff told me he was on a behavior contract when he was in school too). Maybe it's part of a newer generation... all the kids in my Primary class seem so outspoken and opinionated. I had to force myself to be that way after I grew up. I didn't even dare complain when an order was wrong before. Maybe Kara's just learned it from the way I am now, who knows. I'm certainly not nice to strangers. I should have a bumper sticker that says "Mean Person". I'm not priding myself in this behavior, but I am not trying to cover up the truth either. Merely stating a fact - Ronnie and Jeff can attest to how mean I am to strangers. I have no patience or tolerance for slowness, incompetence, or stupidity. I have a long ways to go before I can die otherwise I will be in trouble. Patience is a virtue that I no longer possess (if I ever did, I've buried it and fully welcomed the age of instant access to everything).

First Day & Week of School

The girls had a good first week of school - Brooke has afternoon Kindergarten (she is called a Late Bird) which means she gets to eat lunch at school. Kara kept saying she is an Early Bird & we can't convince her that in her grade there is no such thing as Early Bird & Late Bird.

We had to talk to Brooke about the difference between snack time and lunch time at school (I did not know she would have both). She wanted to take a lunch to school today since she did not like what was on the menu. However, she said that she was hungry at recess and ate the pizza lunchable we packed her for snack. We asked her what she did at lunch time - she bought lunch from school and only ate the muffin that came with it. She is very silly, but she wasted $2.25 off of her lunch card for a muffin (and she probably only ate a few bites of her lunchable at snack time). Tomorrow she will get a snack & will be sent a separate lunch. No wonder there is a problem with obesity for kids - they are cutting P.E. but giving the kids extra food breaks. Am I alone in thinking it's strange to have a snack break and a lunch break when they are only in school from 10 am to 2pm?

Kara is on the short end of her class (big surprise). There was one girl in line the first day who was at least as short if not slightly shorter. See the attached picture to see how much taller the average kid in her class is than Kara (that girl in the picture really is in Kara's class and she is not the tallest kid in class either).