Well it has finally arrived, Athena's first day/week>of school is complete. I think her parents are having a more difficult time adjusting than the child. We started off going into Target and spending a small fortune on school supplies, back packs, clothes, lunch box/thermos (did you all know that lunch boxes no longer come with the thermos?!?), and picking up the items her new teacher had request each student needed (apparently the classroom needed 25 boxes of Kleenex and 110 glue sticks-who new? LOL).
Next we drove past the school to get Athena used to seeing it and accept the fact that she would soon be going regularly. (She informed us more than once that she was not going.) The first morning was rough. Mom and Athena are not accustomed to early rising. We managed to get up, eat, get dressed, etc. without too much fuss. Athena loaded her Tinker Bell backpack up with all her first day supplies and headed for the door. It was a little heavy (she was walking side ways lol) but like any stubborn Chlapowski she marched on refusing any assistance! (I have no idea where she gets her stubbornness from.) We walked all the way to school (4 blocks, we were accused of trying to tire her out before she got to school!!)
Athena's day went well, she came out the door to meet us after a full day (we had arranged to meet Nana and Pop at a near by ice cream shop to surprise Athena, but she was way ahead of us suggesting we go there.) As we walked and talked about her day we were politley informed that she would not be going tomorrow because she wuld be sick. How? Well, she caught Grandmom's cold and she would be getting it tomorrow.
So, it has been a good week (the cold never came so we made it the rest of the week). Now if I can just get the wife out of the house (and working) I can get some work down without interuption...whoops alarm is going off now time to leave dreamland.
I hope everyone had a great week and enjoy your weekend.
Brian
aka Daddy
aka Athena's Dad
