Goodbye, Summer!

We spent the last week of the summer at Bear Lake. Boy howdy, it the perfect way to end the summer. It's lazy, warm and involves lots of swimming. All the things summer should be.

And because all of the Utah County Schools were back in session, there was hardly anybody up there. It was great.

School started today. Yeah!! And both kids are actually there and so far we haven't received any phone calls from the office telling us to come and get them. It is pretty heavenly. Last night, however, was a little bit awful. Jonah was stressed because he is in a new school this year (last year when the school year started we weren't in our house yet.) which is understandable. The poor kid is in 3rd grade and has already been to 3 different elementary schools. And Noel was a wreck because he was so nervous and the Anxiety Disorder was in full swing. There was about 1 hour yesterday where he just wandered the house and made sad little sounds. Part (most?) of his panic was about the fact that we had told them that during the school year they couldn't play video games during the week.

Surprisingly, this morning went mostly well. Noel seemed in better spirits, though he did tell me he could hardly sleep last night because he was so worried about the new video game rule. And as we walked to the bus stop he told me he was really excited to ride the bus, and he knew his teacher would be nice and he was sure it would be beautiful inside. Inside the bus? The school? These are the kind of nonsensical things Noel likes to say to keep us guessing. (Last night when Amy asked what Noel would like her to pack in his lunchbox he said, "Friendship.")

Long story short: Noel made it on the bus, but Jonah missed it, so I had to race Jonah to the school, in a panic that Noel would get there before me and not know where to go. And he did beat us there, but he just wandered around in the front of the school. We seemed to get them to their classrooms OK and I was feeling good. Until Amy said "So, they know which bus to get on to come home?" And I realized we had zero discussion of that. And Jonah never saw the bus or the bus driver. So we are relying on Noel, with his lunchbox full of friendship, to find the correct bus for the both of them.

They'll figure it out, right?