Back to school

Today was a very early morning for me and worse I was exhausted since last night insomnia hit me. But at least I was not alone my husband took the day off to help me go through the craziness of first day of school. My husband insisted that we get there extra early due to the parking situation. We are told that the children must go to the cafeteria where they will await for their teachers to pick them up. It was a horrible disorganized mess, which is expected on the first day. They have the kids line up for breakfast and my husband forces my son to do this. He waits with him in line since this is first time doing anything like this. Before getting in line they give my husband a pin code my son has to use. While he was up there one of the workers gets snarky with my husband , saying that he needs to let me son figure it out on his own. He snaps back that he must first be shown how to do it , so that the next time he can do it by himself. I was impressed at the selection my son got but I know my kids they hate breakfast food. i can't even get them to eat eggs. My kids are the type that would eat rice and pasta for breakfast. I guess its hidden in the Cuban DNA. So the food was a waste, my husband tried to force my son to eat a mini blueberry pancake. Well we continue to wait and now its extremely crowded because now all the bigger kids are in the room. You can see the look on the pre-k and kindergarten's face , it was a look of being overwhelmed. Finally after waiting for over 45 minutes we are just told to walk the kids to the class , the teacher is running behind. I was o.k. with this because this is what I wanted all along. My son settles in perfectly no tears or tugging for us to stay. His teacher even took my sign I used for pictures today to post on the door. I  manage to hold it together no tears out of my eyes, have to be strong like my son.
After that my husband and I needed to go find the rest of the stuff we didn't get on his list. Half a tank later we were half successful. We then decided to go and find out about our little Light bill problem. Well as usual with Life we are told the $445 bill is not a mistake, they apparently had closed out my account and refunded me some of my deposit. Now I really had to fight back the tears , just when you think you get a ahead life's curve balls knocks you out. Can I call for a foul. Well I gave them the deposit back but that is not nearly enough to cover the bill. I will have to figure that out on payday, hopefully they wait until then.  By the time we finished our errands it was time to pick my son up and this turned out to be a bigger disaster then the morning. They do not allow you to pick up the kids in the school you have to drive up and they basically toss your child at you. The problem with this is that its only two lanes that allows you to pick up the kids and if the cars in front of you child has yet to come you have to still wait. Also these are the younger kids that are being picked up so that means time to put them in their car seats.  People where literally leaving their car in the middle of the street and picking their kids at the gate entrance. I would have done the same but I had my daughter in the car. So after about 40 minutes my sons teacher walks him to my car, I still was several cars behind. I was excited by this I could ask her how everything went. She gets to the car and I excitedly ask so how was the first day for him . She gives me a look and says its a work in progress. My heart sinks , I want to ask more but she has to shuffle the other kids to their parents. I somewhat understand why they are doing this horrible lock down policy. They are making sure what happened in Connecticut doesn't happen here. But at the same time these kids are young , and teachers are always asking for more parent involvement. Its hard to do that if I am not able to meet you on a regular basis. I guess I should make a weekly standing appointment.
I ask my son how his first day went and he was like it's o.k. My son if he does not find it interesting he really doesn't go into details about it. Well we both survived the first day now the second day lets see, I don't have dear ol' husband to help me out.