First Days of School

We started school a few weeks ago.  First day of 1st grade co-op:

Next year I will try to be a good Pinterest mom and have some cute crafty chalkboard sign or something...this year, we're lucky I remembered to make her hold up a piece of paper!

She's an old pro now...didn't even want mom to walk her in.  Just pull up to the curb and let her out.  At least she let me take a picture!

Of course, posting these pictures on facebook led to questions and me trying to explain exactly what we do, since people see this and say "I thought you homeschooled!".  We do.  But we found a very unique co-op/hybrid school, so she takes classes 2 days a week and we do 3 days a week at home.    I'm very thankful that we have the option of something like this!  Its pretty rare.  It helped me build my confidence a lot the first year when I had been too overwhelmed to try to homeschool.  Now that I have a year under my belt, I can truly say, it isn't necessary, but it sure is nice ;)


A week later, preschool started:

This can also lead to questions...since people don't understand why we would put our children in preschool if we are going to homeschool.  My reply is basically that there are many reasons people choose to homeschool, and our reasons do not lead us to forgo preschool.  Once again, while its not necessary, it sure can be nice!

And just for fun, a little story about the second day of preschool.  I took Connor to the bathroom before he went to his class.  And I realized that  he had his pajama shorts on underneath his shorts.  Why??  Who knows?!  But there they were.  I figured no one would know.  Until I went to pick him up...and saw like 4 inches of red pajama shorts hanging out the bottom of his khaki shorts!  :/  Yeah...you know they talked about me after we left...  But at least he gets himself dressed every day, right? :)

Note the red shorts hanging out...