1) It began with Sarah not having a locker - well, she actually has a locker but none of the four combinations worked for her, despite multiple trips to the office. Our fingers are crossed that Mr. Wilkins will come to the rescue tomorrow!
2) Next, she had a total of three schedule changes, none of which ended up being the one Sarah wanted but...
3) It required Sarah to realize much to her dismay that Drama simply was not going to fit into her schedule. It also caused her to realize that Spanish isn't so bad and dare I say it - is quite fun!
4) It meant having tennis practice every. single. day. after school, starting on the very first day! Sigh. No one told us that it would start the first day nor were we told that Sarah would have to have "study hall" as her last class so she could leave school early to go to tennis practice (hence the need for the schedule change.) But the good news is that her coach is Mr. Folsom whom Sarah LOVES and - get this - she's on the VARSITY team. Yeah, ummm...see there's only one tennis team and the seniors don't want to be junior varsity so.... Pretty darn funny since Sarah and her friends only started taking lessons this summer!
5) It involved me realizing that Mr. Folsom doesn't always watch the clock so I should bring lots of reading materials while I wait well past the promised drop off time of 4:30. I would volunteer to drive out to Sycuan Resort to pick up the girls (Sarah, Danielle and Kelsey) but apparently the ride home with Mr. Folsom is so much fun that they don't want to miss out (something about hitting the bumps at 55 miles and hour and bouncing out of their seats and listening to music and laughing or some other nonsense....)
6) It means a pile o' homework from now until May 2010. She has Honors English, Spanish, Physical Science, Bible, World History and Algebra. Social life has gone bye-bye, though somehow she still finds time to take care of her crops in Farmville, post on Facebook and text endlessly.
7) It's made Ryan and I realize that she only has four more years until college and we need to treasure every single day with the best thing that has ever happened to us!
Yay for high school! She'll have a blast.
ReplyDeleteYou are so right about treasuring every single day! Hard to remember sometimes when they are annoying you to death (my 18 y/o right now!)
ReplyDeleteI have been told the bus rides are way more fun than riding with mom at times, then other times they want to ride with you. can't keep up with how things change from one time to the next.