Busy, Busy, Busy

Well, the kids start school Thursday and I cannot wait to get back into a regular schedule. We have finished all of our shopping and we are just trying to get everything in order (rooms and toys dentists appointments tomorrow.) We have been putting the kids to bed at 8:00, but they are not going to sleep until after 9. I am wondering if we should move the bed time back some, but Savannah needs her sleep. I guess we will experiment with it some.

We had Zach's orientation last night and Savannah's will be this afternoon. We are happy with the teacher that Zach has gotten this year, but at the same time we were a little disappointed that he did not get the same teahcer as Morgan and Savannah. Here in Prattville, we always have a teacher consideration card to fill out and the Principal at the Primary School is good about placing siblings in the same class, if requested. This has always been the case with us. Morgan and Savannah had the same wonderful first grade teacher, however, Zach was not placed with her. He was placed next door to a teacher that she mentors and does a lot of the same things. We are happy with the teacher that Zach is going to have this year!

Well, after much stress and worrying, we finally found out the Savannah's teacher is Mrs. Jackson. We personally do not know anything about her, however, we have heard nothing but good things about her! I think that we are going to have a much better 3rd grade year than Morgan had! I think overall at this point, aside from a few disappointments, we are happy with the teachers that the kids have this year.

Morgan has already started school and is doing everything on the computer. She loves it and is doing pretty well. (She has a great teacher!!)

We had a busy weekend. Todd was off again on Friday, so we took advantage of the work day for others and the sales tax holiday (Prattville waived the city tax also, so we paid no tax at all!) We got all of our shopping done Friday and everywhere that we went was not too busy!

On Saturday, we went to my parent's house in Clanton for my sister-in-law's birthday! We had a really good time and the "kids" played in the pool. After we left there we headed up to Mountain Brook to the Whole Foods store. I have been wanting to go and Todd said that we could go ahead and go since we were that close to Birmingham. We bought a few things, but everything was still kind of expensive.

Sunday, we went to a different church. We loved it. The people were super friendly. The kids enjoyed it. We are going to go back Wednesday night. We are actually looking forward to Wednesday night, so that makes us feel good, because we have not felt that way in a long time!

Well, I guess that just about brings us to today. I have to go up to Savannah's school early and work the APT (also known as the PTA) table for the fourth grade orientation before Savannah has hers. I also need to take Zach's school tote bag somewhere to get it monogrammed. (The school requires the kids have tote bags, until third grade. This year the Primary School's bags are purple!! Zachary would not have anything to do with that. I was talking to his teacher ( I know her from being at the school so much!) and told her that I could not believe that the bags were purple and Zach did not want to have a girl bag,and I was going to go and buy him a different bag, she told me that she had a black bag left over from a few years ago, so he has a black bag and he is very happy about that!!