Back to School 2023

 We did it! We successfully survived the first week of school despite having been on vacation until the day before school started. In my previous post,  I mentioned that Austin and Kai didn't get to do all the planned events because of the flooding in our area. The main worry was that Austin is now a freshman at our very large campus and has classes at all 3 of the schools. He didn't get a chance to walk his schedule at the make-up day, since that was during our time out west. So, on Monday,  after our 4-hour drive from Chicago,  we went to the high school and walked the schedule as best we could, without going inside, as they were locked. Kai was able to give him a few tips as to which doors were the best to leave from. Luckily, Austin has had some exposure to the inside of each of the schools and it seemed that on his first day on Tuesday, he didn't have any problems finding anything. Luckily, seminary starts tomorrow, so they had some extra time for him to do the other things he missed before school started each morning, like getting his picture taken, getting his Chromebook, and getting any textbooks he will need. Kai's day for all that was the day before the flooding, so she only missed color guard practices due to the storm. 

Erik started middle school and for Discovery, they don't have a schedule pick up before the first day of school. He missed the WEB (Where Everyone Belongs) activity, but that was already known when we had planned for him to drive with Victoria and me. The WEB activity is a time for kids to reconnect with each other and play games at the school, which is super important and fun, but luckily Erik was able to keep a lot of connections with friends over the summer. I also found out that a good friend would be in band with him and we arranged for them to meet each other at the corner on the first day of school to ride their bikes together. They met each other each day and will continue to do so for the rest of the year!

Kai loves having access to "her" car, and so do I! All those color guard practices! 

Victoria has successfully moved into her apartment and starts classes tomorrow. She is loving Idaho so far!

My students are more helpful than my students were last year in cleaning up. I have a few less students, so that's nice.

It's going to be a fantastic school year!

Jason and Victoria attended the first game in Provo and he ran into a good buddy of ours from our college days!