And so we start Ariel in kindergarten. Tomorrow, anyhow. Today was the Open House so that she could visit her new classroom.

She knows one girl from preschool last year; the rest are new to her. She doesn’t particularly mind, although she was certainly looking out for her other classmates. But with 5 or so kindergarten classes, it’s no wonder that she doesn’t have many preschool classmates in her class.

It’s going to be a switch for me. Making lunches first thing in the morning. That’s going to be interesting.

This morning was a sort of dry run. Got her up this morning just as though it were a school day. Since the Open House started at 8 a.m., we were able to get some practice in getting ready on time. Poor kid just isn’t ready to be perky at that hour. Decidedly dragging.

I know she’s hoping we won’t have to work on her bedtime. One of her favorite shows comes on at 8 in the evening, so she’d rather not have to go to bed sooner than 8:30. But she has been warned that if it is necessary, the bedtime will move!

We’ll be walking to school each day again. It’s a pretty easy walk, although with Gage walking rather than riding in the stroller it takes about 15 minutes to get there, rather than 10. But you do what you have to, and he’s big enough to walk that distance.

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