First day hiccups
After a delightful New Years Day, it was back to work for me yesterday. Lucky for the kids, they still had one more day until they headed back to the classroom... or so I thought. As I was backing out of the driveway, I looked down the street and thought, why is the school bus here? Uh oh... Turned out, John was back to school yesterday; it was Caroline who had one more day off. The occasional differences between the public school calendar and the Xavier private school calendar catch me off guard! Thankfully, Justin was able to get him to school in time for second period to start, but the poor kid was exhausted by the end of the day. We'd let him stay up until almost midnight on the 1st, watching football, because we thought he could sleep in the next day! Mom of the Year, and it only took two days... After a mostly unproductive first day back at work for me - it's always hard to get the brain back in gear after ten days of vacation - I came home to the best part of everyda