Back to School

After the kids' waiting and counting down the days, school day finally came. Benjamin has the much-coveted Mrs. Nickles for kinder, Leah is in Mr. Purcell's class, and Isaac was placed with Mr. Nguyen, who has some elaborate money system that Isaac can't wait to take advantage of. Benjamin, who was more excited that anyone because it's his first year to stay all day, fell asleep twice and started tearing up on the way home because he was so pooped. Luckily Isaac still dreams of eating school breakfast so we use that as incentive for, oh, whatever it is we want him to do. And Elizabeth is not too excited about having mom as her only prospect for a playmate all day.

Tomorrow's Breakfast Menu: Cold Cereal

I wanted to try getting the kids to eat something other than cold cereal for breakfast so last night at the store I bought bacon and eggs and even had white bread (which is at the top of Leah's birthday list). Well, Isaac left early for school breakfast, Leah shared her bacon with Benjamin (which at first I thought was nice, until I realized she was just trying to get rid of it), and Benjamin choked down the bacon and pawned his toast off to the baby(it's still in tact, sitting on the counter). In the end all anyone wanted was orange juice and seconds of it, please (except Benjamin who didn't want it because he knew it was the vehicle for his eczema medicine). And did I mention the bowl of oatmeal which Leah made that is keeping the toast company on the counter? Next to the pan full of bacon? Cheerio.