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| I love that to her, umbrellas and rain coats will be a fun novelty. |
Not leaving all of Seattle behind I ordered the children's school supplies on Amazon.com and had them delivered to my door just in time for meet the teacher. No meandering aisles of folders and trapper keepers, no picking out the perfect blend of folders - just an Amazon box packed neatly with gender neutral chidlren's scissors and pencil boxes.
My Eli started Kindergarten! A school boy, with a backpack (empty aside from a cheese stick), new sneakers and haircut to match left the front porch.
I played it cool with the bus and decided not to follow it. I put aside my anxieties of him riding in a vehicle I had no crash ratings on. The fact that he was not riding in a car seat made of steel, installed by a fireman, and tested by NASA could only be paled by the fact that he was going to be driven by a stranger whom I had not personally looked in the eye or had a chance to Google and stalk on Facebook yet.
It all went well aside from a little route mishap which led to the bus stopping in front of my home without my boy. A kind gentleman said "It's OK mam, we'll put an APB out for him!" What?? They found him in no time apparently on another lovely bus with another lovely driver and brought him on home. Someone please pass the Valium! And thus no photo of Eli arriving home his first day, my iPhone was tied up researching Amber Alerts:)
And of course with Fall there is apple picking........
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| Apple Cider Doughnuts.... |
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| I got to her too late.... |
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| Courtesy of crossed fingers, Google and one patient husband.... |
We go for a bike ride through town on most weekends. We stop at the local mom and pop market for a snack (high fructose corn syrup, dye ridden candy) - to keep little ones in the bike trailer happy so the rest of us can take in the sites. I wish I could describe in words the sound of the first crunchy leaves on the paved park paths.
