First day of school

Here we are again…another school year is starting all over. Madison starting 3rd grade and Kaitlynn in 11th, where did the summer go? Yesterday was not the most pleasant days - weather wise - it rained all night the night before and all into the morning. So it was a wet one for the start of the school day, which already puts you in a bad mood. I walked Madison up to her classroom and she was excited to see all of her friends again. I snapped a few pictures of her in her classroom and with her teacher.

 

Kaitlynn was up pretty early since the High School starts an hour before Elementary. She had arranged for her boyfriend {Kurt} to pick her up on the first day so she didn’t have to ride the bus, plus he took her home from school so she lucked out and didn’t have to ride the bus at all the first day. So needless to say I didn’t get a chance to snap any pictures of her. As soon as he picked her up she was out the door, plus it was raining pretty hard at that time so he waited in the truck for her. She will only have to ride the bus for 2 weeks at the most and then her car will be ready for her to start driving. So hopefully I will get to snap at least one picture of her during that time getting off the bus coming home one day…{I will have to sneak it, since she is not so eager to have me taking pictures of her coming off the bus at age 16…she says its embarrassing}

Then of course we cannot have the first day go by without some type of issues…we had bus issues in the afternoon with Madison’s bus.  There was a new bus driver and she changed the bus route to fit her needs not the safety of the children. Madison has to get off in a certain direction for where her bus stop is located, due to the logging trucks that fly by so they can see the flashing bus lights from behind enough time to slow down...she came in the total opposite direction so the trucks would never see the bus stopped plus Madison had to get off on the other side of the road to where she has to cross over the highway, we had to have it changed several years ago for that reason. So instead of Madison being the 4th stop and off at 3:50 (school lets out at 3:30) she was the very last stop of the day and didn’t get off until 4:45. I was at the bus stop waiting for over an hour and called the school several times and they could not tell me why other than the busses left 15 minutes late on the first day. Plus I could NOT get through on the bus garage's line at all it stayed busy. So needless to say they will hear from me today!! 

Well to end on a good note, Madison loves her teacher and she already stated she made some new friends in her class. Kaitlynn is happy that her boyfriend is in her first period and she seems to like most of her teachers. So now we just need to improve school lunches….LOL :)