Well, today was our first day.  I had such high hopes!  I gave the kids all their new school stuff and they were so excited that they wanted to hop right into school without tending to chores or even getting their play time!  Well, we're also working on getting back into a good routine, so they had to do all their chores and they did get about 40 minutes play time before school started at 10.  I even had some new school stuff for little David (who's only almost 3). 

    Finally I get my things done and it's time to start school and they're off like shots!  Except that they each search for a fun looking page in their math books and get ready to start in on that.  So we had a little chat about that!  Then Alycia started balking as she couldn't draw hearts and wanted to do her own thing.  This is the first year we're getting serious about school with her (though it's more of a k/1st grade level), so I had to have another chat about the importance of learning to follow directions.  We finally worked through all of that but then David started getting really impatient and angry about everything, wanting me to read to him (a big kid's book, and in the middle of Daniel's spelling, no less).  It just was a lot tougher than I thought and I got a little frustrated.  I could go on and on, but you know what, just a little bit ago Daniel came up to me and said, "Thanks Mom, school was just awesome!" and right now they're in the livingroom doing some kind of school projects on their own (I did tell them that they needed to get out other workbooks to work on so they wouldn't just do their own thing in their new ones).

    So we survived our first day.  I think David is battling allergies or a cold or something.  I picked up some medicine for him today, so we'll see what happens.  I didn't get everything done that I had thought I would, but really, looking back on it, it was a pretty good day, considering it all!