School was awesome for both girls. This year kid #2's teachers actually sent home their expectations! No shit! Along with homework due dates for the trimester! Woohoo! She has 50 points worth of work due every week in her language class which she can mix and match from a list of activities worth between 5 and 25 points each. All of these are due ( Read more... )

Aside from the surprise abut the dismissal times, the first day went great. I walked the girls to school this morning and met both of their teachers, who both seemed pretty great. Later I went to the bank and got some cash and paid for their lunches for the day, they weren't sure whether or not they were going to like school lunches. It's hit or ( Read more... )

So I walked my kids to their first day of school today. The secretary told me when I enrolled then that they get out at 2:20 every Wednesday, which I thought was weird, but oh well. Today we dropped Emma off, then walked over to Serra's classroom. Her teacher and I were talking about Emma being in 3rd grade etc etc, and she said 'So how is that ( Read more... )

Kids have found their classes and we checked out the child care, they loved it, the owner was very cool. My landlady is sending the handyman out on Thursday to service the AC. I got a letter from the other county today with an appointment for an oral interview. I'm gonna call Shasta tomorrow and find out what's up with the background check etc. I ( Read more... )

Yesterday I took the kids school clothes shopping. We had fun, even though I despise shopping. They got some really cute stuff, and each a pair of cute tennis shoes, and now I'm broke again. I talked to Brian before we left, and he asked to have the girls come spend the weekend, so after shopping I dropped them off at his place. I realized after we ( Read more... )