First Day Of Kindergarten

Sue's first day of Kindergarten was yesterday. She is going to a morning pre-school program where we drop her off, then a bus takes to her Sliney school (the local elementary school) for Kindergarten, then she takes the bus home.

Sue's backpack is now full of her kindergarten stuff.



This is the building where the pre-school program is held, about ten minutes away from the elementary school building.



Sue settled right into the pre-school program with paper and markers. She discovered that a nice boy named Georges from CDC (her nursery school) is in both this pre-school program and in her Kindergarten class.



Both Brendan and I were a wreck all day, although Sue was fine with it all. I went to meet the bus, only to discover when the bus arrived (half an hour late!) that Sue was not on it! Yikes! Once the driver got on the radio, it was discovered that Sue was on bus #9. I ended up meeting her back at Sliney. Sue was taking it all in stride. Not so much Mommy. Round trip, house-bus stop-Sliney-home, 1 and 1/2 hours. And much agita.

Needless to say, Sue's bus number is plastered all over her backpack and Sue has been drilled with her bus number. Hopefully today will go more smoothly.

Yarn Harlot At RJ Julia

I went to hear the Yarn Harlot speak at RJ Julia's last night with Abigail and Jessie. What a hoot! Stephanie Pearl-McPhee is even funnier in person than in her books. I was laughing so hard I was crying.




She took the usual sock pictures ...




And there was a book signing, of course.



One of the best nights out I've had in a while.