First Day of School

Cody has not had a first day of school yet. School was supposed to start on Monday, but the school did not have his records. They do now & he has his shot, but they have not scheduled his classes yet. We BOTH hope that will happen soon.

Brayden did start school and he did ride the bus. As the bus drove away, he was sitting alone on the bus looking out of the window. It made me very sad. I almost cried. But then I looked back and a lady that was dropping off her kindergarten girl, was crying her eyes out. I felt so bad for her, I couldn't cry over my 4th grader.

When he got home, he was so happy. He had such a good day. When I was waiting for him at the bus stop, a lady that we know from church was waiting there too. We were both relieved to see each other. She was thinking about letting her son ride the bus but it was making her nervous, so we both felt better. Then I met the lady behind me, who has a 4th grader AND he is in Brayden's class. She asked if her son to walk to & from the bus with Brayden. It was really great!!!! I felt so much better. Everything worked out just fine, as everyone said that it would.

I said my little prayer of thanksgiving today as Brayden went off the the bus for his 2nd day!!!

Updates

Virginia - To make this short & sweet. We went to Virginia Beach, we stopped by Williamsburg and then our last night there we went up to Baltimore to Inner Harbor. We met up with the Poff family & really enjoyed that time. THERE IS A LOT OF TRAFFIC in that area - ALL OF THE TIME. We did a lot but still have a lot left to do up there. I really appreciated the Spillers' hospitality

Wardrobe - still doing my color weeks. Last week, I did blue week. This week was black week. I think next week will be light pink week or purple, I haven't decided yet. Probably light pink.

School - I found out the bus pick up/schedule and I have accepted the fact that Brayden will be riding the bus. He only has to walk like a block to the bus stop. And Cody will be home before he is so Cody can make sure that he gets home safely. I think I am more anxious about the new school year than they are.

I'm back in classes & should actually graduate with my first bachelor's degree next year!!! My new major is now Communication Sales & Marketing.

A decade in the making

Brayden's birthday was on Monday. He turned 10. I cannot believe it!!!! He is getting so big.

On his actual birthday, he was with his dad. So, I met them for lunch. We all sat together and had lunch. This is the first time that I have been face to face with Shannon for more than 5 minutes in the 5 years that we have been divorced. Lunch went fine and I was ok with it. But it was a bit uncomfortable. And Shannon was pleasant but he hardly made eye contact with me the whole time. Later Cody asked me if it was awkward. I told him not really for me but it seemed that Shannon was uncomfortable, he said that he was. Just because we have not done anything like that since our divorce. But I'm glad that we did it for Brayden.

WORLD wide web

I ordered some movies last month. I found this website from my scanning app on my iphone. And all the movies were $6.99. So, I decided to order a couple. $25 purchase was free shipping. The website was simple but nothing odd about it.

After about 2 weeks, we still had not received our movies. I sent an email and I got a response back that said please allow 15-25 days. I got a little nervous, but it had only been 15 days. The email had some broken English/bad grammar (which is a sign of phishing).

But we finally got them, AND I see why it took so long. They came from CHINA!!! And the covers are in Chinese. But the movies are English. Thank goodness.

AND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am looking at the photo below just now & realized that I just bought a blueray!!! I don't have a blueray player.

Back to reality

So, I am back from vacation, and I am not going to post my pics on here. I posted most of them on FB & I took like 300 pictures. I have decided that I do not have the time to post them again.

But I will take the next couple of posts to talk about my vacation a little bit.

This was my first time on the East Coast and I LOVED IT. We had a totally great time and my cousins the Spillers were awesome to us!! The boys liked DC the best. I am very surprised by that. But I think it is because they have read about DC and heard about all of the historic monuments but it is a different experience to actually see them. Cody said that he never thought that he would actually go to DC or the Smithsonian. They were awesome during the very long day of walking too. It was hot, we walked A TON and then we got rained on and the whole time they had great attitudes. I was so proud of them. I told them like 10 times!!!

DC was probably my favorite part of the trip too. BUT the beach would come in a close 2nd. Already planning my trip back!! Too much to do & I missed going to DC cupcakes!!