First Day of School

When I hear, "first day of school" - I think of the movie "Nemo", when his father yells, "first day of school, first day of school", while waking up his son Nemo. All the while, Nemo was slow to wake and is taking his sweet time. How exciting...it was going to be Nemo's very first day of exploration, meeting new friends, and going to the reef! ooh-la-la

I felt like that this morning. Filled with emotion, my sweet #1 son Evan started his first day of kindergarten. Evan must've been super excited b/c we put him to bed last night around 8:15. He got out of the bed 20 minutes later saying he was hot, so I told him to change into different PJ's, which he did. Thirty minutes later, he got up and said he needed something for his mosquito bite. It was about 9:45 when Evan got up (again) and requested some water. By then, I just about had it and told him that he better not wake up in a cranky mood in the morning. And guess what -- he didn't!

My sweet sunshine woke up stir-crazy and rearing to go. Ate a good breakfast, got dressed, brushed his teeth, even had some cuddle-cute little brother time with Jacob. Loaded up the car and left shortly after 7:40 am. Our daily goal is to leave the house by 7:30 am. We were close, so I'm not complaining. We quickly dropped Jacob off at Lynn's and that went pretty well. Then it was off to Harmony. Both Cy and I dropped Evan off. Come on..this is HUGE! Of course I had my camera in tow and took a few pictures of him entering Harmony.

It's about 11:30 am now and they should be eating lunch right about now. I'm proud of myself because I packed a really great healthy lunch for Evan today - WITHOUT the reusable snack bag though! I had planned on making it before school started, but busy me was too busy. Give me credit - I did cut the material over the weekend, but didn't have time to sew it all together. Maybe I'll get to that tonight. :)

No tears were shed today. I managed to hold it together like a tough girl. I'm looking forward to hearing how Evan's first day of school went. In my parent pocket we received a few notes and one of them included his showday day - it'll be every Wednesday. Mr. Evan already has his "show day items" ready...that's how excited he is!

On another note....

Last Friday, we celebrated Cy's birthday and I was determined to make him a cake (not buy it from Publix like I usually do every year). I envisioned a cake in a shape of a turtle since Cy really likes turtle. You all know I work full-time and then I go into mommy mode when I have the boys - so when the heck will I have time to make a cake, AND shape it into a turtle? Hah! I think not. I broke down Thursday evening just after putting the boys down for bed. I told Cy how I wanted to make him a cake, but I was just too tired to bake and decorate it. His words: "Then don't. I don't want you to stress out over it, relax Wendy...it'll be okay". Well, I said okay and then proceeded to clean up the kitchen. But then, a huge rush of energy came over me and I just started busting out the baking pans, and pulling out the ingredients for making a cake and BOOM - DONE! I made the cake. My frosting didn't turn out so well, so instead of stressing out, I went to Publix the next day and bought their butter cream frosting. Yeah, you can do that - buy their delicious frosting by the pound and be done with it. I take full credit for the cake I made...cake and frosting too! I love it when I'm not stressing out and everything turned out great!

Happy Birthday Cy!

Cy's birthday cake.

It's not a turtle-shaped cake, but I did manage to frost a turtle on it!

Pepsi or Sweet Tea?

I'm a fan of both. But when it comes to drinking one with a specific meal, and you get the opposite - its not so tasty to me!

I ran for the border today for lunch. Their two dollah meal deal is off the chain for something cheap and yummy. Taco Bell equals Pepsi -- ALWAYS! Not today. I ordered a Pepsi, but as I was pulling out of the drive-thru parking lot after I got my meal, I took that oh-so-refreshing sip of Pepsi and ughed! SWEET TEA - WTH?? It was like slow motion hands on cheeks...shouting Ohhh noooo!! Think fast Wendy, think fast...should I back up and switch and tell them they made a mistake? Oops..nope, the car behind me had already pulled up...can't do that. Should I turn back into the parking lot, park, and get out of the car, go inside and switch? That defeats the purpose of me going through the drive-thru.

I kept it and drank the sweet tea on my way back to work. My taste buds are confused now. Don't you just hate when that happens?

On another note...my reason for being out and about - my hubby's celebration of life (it's what Evan calls it nowadays) - aka burfday is 2morrow. Trying to be creative on the day before is not going so well. I'll take a picture of it and blog about it later. Before the pepsi/sweet tea mishap, I managed to get some eco-friendly material to make those reusable snack bags that I mentioned in one of my previous blogs. Now I just have to carry on and sew it together! School starts next Monday...I still have time, right?