September 2016 Goals

We are about a week into September but wanted to share my goals for the month.

Kiddos already went back to school so that one is taken care of!!! CHECK!
Here are photos from their first day of school!

Emma is in MIDDLE SCHOOL

How did this ever happen? How is my little girl in MIDDLE SCHOOL????

I mean wasn't this yesterday? (1st grade)

 I was worried that she was going to be too big for photos before school started so I was SUPER excited that she still humored her mom!

I even took off early to pick her up from the bus stop... and at that point I pretty much had the worst hour and fifteen minutes of my life!

I was waiting at the bus stop with my camera hoping to sneak a few more photos of her getting off the bus. All of the kiddos all got off and EMMA WAS NOT ONE OF THEM!!! I thought maybe she forgot that she was going to take the bus home or that she had missed the bus so I headed to school... Not there... I went back to her bus stop and drove all through her Dad's neighborhood (he had just moved to the neighborhood so that Emma could go to this specific school) NOT THERE... Not at his house! Back to school to see if any of the buses had reported that there was an extra child on their bus... NOPE still no reports of a child getting on a wrong bus... THERE ARE 30 BUSES AT EMMA'S SCHOOL. At this point, over an hour later, I was about to loose my Sh*t. Crying to Emma's dad and my Dad... I went back to her Dad's neighborhood and she had JUST arrived at her Dad's house!!! I was so revealed to hug her and we cried together... She had gotten on the wrong bus and had even driven right past her stop where I was sitting, She got to the final stop and FINALLY said something to the driver and he took her to the proper spot!!! AHHH

So happy that she was safe and that it wasn't anything major!!! She will always be my little girl... Even if she is a big middle school chica!

Back to School Fun

Over the last two days the Park Household has been busy getting two kiddos off to school!

This year Emma started her 5th grade year at Beech Tree. I'm filled with a mixture of emotions... I cannot believe that this is her last year in elementary school! I love her school, her friends, teachers, and parents and this is our last year of that. Emma is people placed so next year it is likely that she will go to a school where she doesn't know anyone and we will not have the interactions with such amazing parents... At least we will still have soccer with many of them!

I'm also so excited for her! She is turning into such an amazing young lady that surprises me daily. I feel so blessed to be her mother and to have the opportunity to see her grow. She is so smart and driven! She even puts up with my crazy obsession with putting vinyl on EVERYTHING!

Yesterday as I took her to school I repeatedly stressed that if she needed to put her name or a number or ANYTHING that she was NOT to write it with a sharpie! That I would take care of it when she got home... I have issues!

and speaking of vinyl and my obsession with my Silhouette machine... Hunter was also included in my back to school madness this year!

Hunter headed off to Pre-school this morning!

He was so excited and ran right into the classroom not even noticing that we were leaving. As we said good-bye he simply ignored us running from one toy to the next. We went to a 45 minute orientation yesterday and while he needs some work on sharing I think that he is going to adapt well and I think that this is a great chance to have some interaction with kiddos his own age. The only thing that I'm a bit apprehensive about is that he is one of the youngest in the class (Turning TWO next week) but a smart guy so I think that he will hold his own.

He headed off to class with a personalized lunch box...

I also made him a backpack but yesterday at orientation all of the kids were given a canvas bag.... with their names written in sharpie... I almost had a heart attack but I will figure out something...