Friday of the first week back to school. We made it through week one. Phew! This summer’s lazy bedtime schedule has not been kind to us. The girls are no longer used to going to bed at 7:30, and have been having a hard tine winding down and settling in to a good night sleep. But the 8am wake ups are a thing of the past, and while mornings have not been too terrible, Oh! the afternoons and evenings have been brutal. Tired little girls are not nearly as fun to be around as the well-rested variety.
I believe that Maggie is enjoying school, though it has been hard to get much information out of her. The rightful order of her life has been restored, and she is relieved that she is back in her environment. The only homework she’s had this week is reading, and she is overjoyed that now instead of recording minutes, she records the pages she’s read. One day this week, she got to put down that she read 60 pages in a night, and that pleased her to no end. The only thing that would make her life complete at this point would be an extra 6 hours in the day to watch all the TV she would like. Well, that and having all her extra curricular activities start again.
Katie loves her teachers, but as she puts it, she’s still getting used to them. This means that she is very quiet during the day and all the noise she is used to making gets compressed into the 4 hours between school and bedtime. And she is used to making A LOT of noise. It is funny to imagine her being as quiet as I know she is being at school, since I so rarely see that side of her. Her teachers even told me that she waited halfway through snack one day this week before letting them know that she couldn’t get her “bar” open. She’s still learning the names of her new friends, but has already asked me to write down her address so she can give it to her new friend, a boy with curly hair.
I am getting used to the quiet at home during the day, and already amazed at how quickly the time goes and how my list of things to do seems to grow much faster than I able to cross things off it.
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