More than one person has asked about the vinyl on the sanitizer bottles and it caused me to think (I try not to do that – it makes my brain cry).  I quickly realized that I didn’t give an explanation about the teacher gifts and was dishonest by omission.  Sorry, folks.

Okay, the truth is that I bought the vinyl online.  Yep, I ordered it from a very efficient gal and let her do the work while I was driving carpool. . . again.  I first read about Janae while reading this post on the HILARIOUS blog called Controlling My Chaos.  Janae runs a business called Thoughts in Vinyl and has lots of cute kits and quotes and more for purchase (I am getting nothing for telling you about her – I just like what I’ve seen) and she committed to make these vinyl cutouts for readers of Controlling My Chaos after Jill posted her own bottles and we all responded with a loud, “I want to do that too!!!”

You can order your own here.

Hope all is well.  I also hope to write more soon.  Bubba turned 6 yesterday and that was the second-to-the-last hurdle on the journey to sanity.  Now I am just waiting for transportation to get Bubba’s bus schedule worked out. . .

Everybody has had their day in the spotlight and the “first days” are done.   Pictures have been taken, new friends have been met, school supplies are tucked away, the carpool route has been driven and all the teachers have been given little back to school gifts:

I wrote about Bubba’s first day and I’m about to give the girls equal “air time”.  Little started on Wednesday and KB started today. Here is Little before her first day at Promise Christian Academy:

Seriously, it is a ridiculous grin she is pulling out these days, but she is so darn cute you just get over the crooked smile.  Oh, and a close up so you can see her little uniform embroidery:

She had a super first day.  She walked right in and said, “Hey There!” to whomever might be listening and went straight to hang up her backpack:

Did you see that loud and bright backpack? Ugh.  Another choice made by my daughter and another time to hold my tongue and remember it isn’t about me.  Don’t get me wrong, it’s cute enough. . . just not girlie 🙂  See:

I say was because I got a call before lunch telling me that they would really like to move Little to the middle grades class for several different reasons.  It was encouraging and sweet and now Mrs. Brittany is Little’s teacher.    Little was in her class today and L-O-V-E-D it.  Little had homework tonight and it was FUN doing it; for the first time ever it was fun.  All in all, Little starting school seems . . . hopeful.

And this is how we started the first day in our three year old class at Kirk Day School (mom, this is the dress):

Who is that “masked” girlie? Yep, that’s KB.  You wouldn’t know it by the first photo but she was so very excited for her first day to begin.  She’s been carrying around a backpack full of baby dolls for a week now.  It’s really cute.

She hung her bag right up by her name plate and was ready to dash right away.

 I forced her to come back for a photo with her teacher and then said, “Have a good time,” to the back of her head as she darted over to the dollhouse to play.  This is Mrs. Hauser.  She’s been teaching here for awhile.  One of the mom’s told me that Mrs. Hauser taught her in 3rd grade and now she was dropping off her son in Mrs. Hauser’s class.  THAT would be weird, eh?

KB must have gotten inspired in that learning environment because she came home and produced this:

If you don’t regularly read “girltalk” you should make the effort and head over to read today’s post – a quote.  Click through here to read what Rachel Jankovic has written about motherhood.