A success....

Well day 1 of Kindergarten a total success. We all made it to the Hemet Library this morning by 10:00 (for those of you who know me, that's impressive). We took our time browsing the children section of the library, looking for just the right books for the next few weeks of school, we made some new friends (McClain started up a conversation), and even played a little educational computer game on one of the computers they have set up for the kiddos. Around 11:15 I told McClain it was time to pack it up and head for home, for break time, snacks and then SHCOOL... So we headed up to the desk to check out our books, the most difficult part of the whole library experience. There is no longer a nice little old lady who checks your books for you, and gives you a little card to remind you when to bring your books back, no there is a big 'ol monster machine that you scan your card and books through and it prints a receipt. This thing was trying to give me a hard time, and I was not happy about it, carting around 5 books, a movie, a purse, Ashton and a trailing McClain behind me. There was some old man next to me who was scanning through his stack like a pro, I on the other had was sweating. Finally some nice library lady, came over to give me a hand, I was doing it all wrong, shocker I know. So anyhow, after making it home, and attempting to shelp all of us and our bags and new books into the house, I walk up to the front door, only to hear my house alarm going off. So like a total idiot, I open the door, turn off the alarm (boys are still in car), decide well that was stupid and run back to the car start it and lock me and the boys in and call Clint. I know real genius move on my part, long story short, The dog set off the alarm because I forgot to put her outside when we left and Clint talked to the alarm company before the police came out. After all that excitement, McClain watched his new movie had a snack while I gave Ashton his snack and gave him a bottle for nap time. So around noon we actually got to working on our first day of Kindergarten. I went surprisingly well. Very little back talk and direction for Mr. Bossy himself. During school time I am known and Mrs. Mom and I am the boss for those short hours at least. So even though we don't have our books or lesson plan yet, we kind of winged it, we practiced letters A and B and writing them and their sounds, we practiced our numbers 1-9 and writing them and using them, we did an art project, read and book and talked about it, did a problem solving page and a kindergarten writing start up. It was actually fun, and really easy, I know its going to get harder as the work gets harder, but it was a great start to our new adventure. Ashton napped all through school time, he was only awake and having his lunch while McClain finished up his problem solving page. After school we were all just able to watch movies, play and chill out, I promised the boys I would take them out to play in the water when it came down to 100* but it only came down to 104*, but we were able to go check out the fire truck friends that came by to visit the Burns family then after dinner we were able to go back to the Burns' house and play in the front yard with the girls until Dad came home. All in all a really great day! A total success!!