School!!

 Claire

This was a pretty big week for Claire because she got registered on Monday and then started Kindergarten on Wednesday! I kept having a hard time admitting that she was old enough to go but she was so excited to get to go that I had to let her. We went shopping to look for the supplies on her list for school and got her a lunchbox, water bottle, and a clip-on toy unicorn as a fidget thing that I'm not sure she even uses.  We dropped her off both days because I didn't know how the bus worked, but this week she will be riding there and we will pick her up from school. She so far loves it and remembers two names of her classmate, who are all called her new friends, one has the same name as her uncle and another has the same name as her cousin! I thought that was a funny coincidence. I get to see some of the work she does in school that gets sent home and it's so fun, while at the same time so hard for me to think about her all alone there without me.

Shay

Shay had a tough time this week, for a few reasons involving her sister, but also because of how boring life is without all the vacation fun we've been having. She asks to go to the pool, the park, the store, and other places all day when Claire was at school. Shay got a water bottle too because there was an Elsa one and they are finally treating things nice enough that I knew she would take care of it...and stop drinking mine...even though they still do. We've been doing homework after getting home from dropping Claire off and I tell her that it's what her sister is doing to comfort her. We also have made trips to the park and tried to see cousins but she was being cranky and saying she couldn't go without Claire. She constantly asks if we can go get Claire and when we do she hate waiting in the pick-up line and fell asleep the 2nd time we went. 

Sisters

It is so cute to see how well they go together and play together and protect each other! I can't believe I get to be so lucky and I don't look forward to when they start growing apart because they are jealous or two grades apart. I don't want to see them not be the best of friends. For so long they have been both doing the same things and always getting things together, now that Claire is in school and Shay feels left behind, I worry. I've been so blessed with them in my life and I can't wait to see what beautiful people they grow up to be. If only we knew where we were going from here, Chris was home, and we didn't live in his parent's basement...then life would be perfect right now.