school

Today I got all Hannah's school supplies. She picked out a High School Musical book bag at the beginning of the summer. I love school supply shopping! I don't know why. Buying all those pencils (I actually didn't buy pencils b/c we have a tub FULL of unsharpened pencils here), markers, scissors, 3x5 notecards, folders, etc. She had to have four specific colored folders, one for each subject. So I let her write the subject and her name on every folder. It was so cute. She's such a big girl. We packed her pencil box, which made me think of the real pencil "boxes" we used to have. Remember those?! Brad didn't remember actual boxes. And got everything in her backpack. We're both getting excited. I hope she loves school. It'll be much easier on us all. =) We've been slowly getting into the school schedule which means this week started no naps and earlier to bed, which automatically means they get up earlier. Next week I'll actually start waking them up at 7, maybe earlier.
I am rather sad about one thing. My sister has got to spend the whole summer off work and home with her new bundle of joy. I know she is dreading the return to work. She used to say she would never be able to be a stay at home mom but I know she would love it now. I remember the days of longing to be home with my kids while I was working. I'm going to be saying a special prayer for her every time I think about it for awhile. It'll be hard for awhile.