First Week of School 2021

The first week of school is in the books! These kiddos are ready to rock Kindergarten, 3rd grade, and 5th grade this year!

We celebrated our first day of school the same way we did last year--by picking up special treats from the bakery in Old Town Helotes on our way home & enjoying them al fresco while I read aloud to them.

A few more pictures from the first week of school...

All three of the above pictures were taken before we left for school in the mornings.  I had set the alarms pretty early for the first day since I knew we'd be taking pictures, etc. I had intended to bump their alarms a few minutes later each day until we found the "just right" time to get us ready & out the door each day, but we decided we kind of liked keeping their alarms on the earlier side so we had more time to enjoy our mornings instead of rushing out the door frantically every day. We had time to read on the couch together, play outside, water our flowers...it was such a breath of fresh air!

And lastly, a picture at the end of the afternoon on Friday! We went out to lunch with friends and then came home for the kids to spend the next hour playing with a suuuuuper long finger knitting Hadley brought home from school. They literally tied it from our back door knob to our front door knob and then just jumped back and forth over the finger knitting again and again....and again! They had the best time!