Back to School

 Nolan, Age 8, 3rd Grade

Mrs. Glasgow's Class

Ollie, Age 13 (in this picture, now he is 14!!), 8th grade

Seth, Age 15 (16 in a month!), Sophomore

And it's my 4th year of teaching elementary technology! Apparently I missed out on the first day pic. ;)

Back to School!

 

Summer Wrap-Up and the 1st day of School

Summer porch napping days are over!

Target practice

Strike!

Luna keeping a close eye on me while I water the flowers.

Goooooooooooal! Austin FC game with dad.

Ollie before his first soccer game, "Mom, if you don't hear anyone else cheering, that's a good sign that you shouldn't be cheering either."

Nolan with bff Eli at church. 

First grade firecracker! Mrs Pepe's class.

Year two as k-5 tech teacher. (I know! I can't believe they asked me to come back either!)

Middle Schooler?!?? 

Ollie on his way to rock his first day of 6th. 

Seth sailing into 8th. 

Praying for a great year full of growth and encouragement!

First Week is in the Books!

Everybody had such a great first week! I'm proud of all us Hippos. 

Seth, the mighty 7th grader

Ollie, our big bad 5th grader

Nolan, our go-go-go kinder-king!

And last but not least, everyone's newest favorite Tech Teacher, Mrs. Mot

Nolan and Ms Tigrett

(Look at him pulling away from her in this picture. Lol! Now that we are on day 5, I'm guessing he would have his hands around her neck. He is a happy camper with his new class.)

Pic from his teacher at the end of the first day.

Picture from Ms Hall, Ollie's teacher from the first day.

The puppies even have had first day excitement. Since I will not be able to come home for lunch anymore and let them out, we installed a dog door. These two yahoos were messing around in the dog doors at home depot and one got stuck. The other took this very good opportunity to dish out the spankings. Yahoo number one had it coming if you ask me. 

Luna, happily basking in the sun. 

 

September 14th

 Oh me oh my. The kids are all Hippos now, (our new school mascots) and I could not be more pleased. The last day they attended school was March 13th, 6 months later we are back! A few nights ago Ollie said, "This was the best day ever!" (It was a totally normal day; absolutely zero special events, not even school.) "I feel like I'm doing a lot better lately. I feel... I feel... You know what? I feel happy." Hallelujah! 

Here's some back to school pictures. Again! Because why not? 

I've been enjoying the sun rise on our walks! (Let's be honest though. I would be enjoying this walk to school even if it were raining cats and dogs.)

Happy first day my little hippos!

The school schedule is perfect because by the time I walk Nolan and Ollie to school and return home, it's not even time for Seth to wake up yet. Elementary starts at 7:40 and Middle School at 8:35. All the kids eat breakfast at school, all the kids walk. I am living my best life. 

Seth's first in-person day at Farley Middle School. 

Go Hippos!

After drop offs Jon had the lovely idea to take me out to coffee before he went in to work. You could tell many other parents had the same idea. 

I have been loving doing my own thing. I got Seth's room painted, ran errands, and met an old uni friend for lunch. (And if you couldn't tell by the last sentence, I also have been watching plenty of British sitcoms.) I spent time with hippo HR to start subbing at Ray and have been sitting on my front porch watching houses being built. I feel like Ollie. Nothing super special, but lots of best days ever.