School has begun

Finally, school has begun. In some ways it went by too slow, some ways too fast. Sara is now a 9th grader in high school. We spent quite a lot of time learning her way around the huge school, scouting out where the bathrooms are, where the bus drops off, etc. She did survive the first week and the only tears were over her original bus she was assigned to ride, so I am not taking her two blocks away to catch another, where the driver does NOT read while driving and she has friends on this bus.

Ruth is still at the same school, but is now the top of the pecking order. She said the first day she opened a door when the bell rang and knocked down a 7th grader..... saying how small they are. I know she forgot that the beginning of last year, she was not taller than me, and my how that has changed. She also survived the first week and in currently in volleyball tryouts.