August 7, 2009

This morning I decided not to go out to my classroom. I wanted to just be with my kids. But, we still had errands to run. It was time to get school supplies. This weekend is the tax free weekend, so we took advantage of it.

We started at Big Lots and bought what we could there. Next, we headed to Wal-mart. What a mad house! It was just absolutely CRAZY there. But, we managed to get what we needed there and got out without anyone getting hurt. After that we went across the street to Dollar Tree for a few more things.

By this time it was lunch time and we were all hungry. We went to Wendy's and had lunch. On the way home we stopped at Michaela's school so I could talk to the secretary about Michaela changing buses. She called the district office and they will not even consider it until at least 2 weeks into the school year. What a pain in the butt. She also told me that the activities have been reduced from three days a week to two days week. Great!

After we left Michaela's school we came home and got all the school supplies sorted and into each person's bag. We made sure all supplies were labeled. I also took the tags off the new clothes. Then, I got the laundry sorted and started.

We spent the rest of the afternoon just hanging out at home. I had wanted to take them swimming, but by the time we'd done all our running around and gotten things at home settled it was too late. I'm a little disappointed that we didn't really get to do anything fun today, but at least we were together.

This evening I talked to my mom. I think we have before school figured out for Michaela. She is going to catch the bus up by my mom's house on Mon-Wed. Then, on Thur. & Fri. my mom is going to drop Michaela off a little early at school before she goes to work. Now, I need to figure out after school stuff.

The four of us went out to eat at Trailhead tonight before we went to get Caleb's football gear. He needed a practice jersey and practice pants. He also needed the under clothes that go under these things and a cup and chin strap. It's been an expensive day.