YAY School

We went to open house last night and it was... meh. They really should stagger the time table for different grades/teacher last names or something. It's a mad house.

Not that it matters because Wes got Mrs. Y for his teacher this year. The same teacher Zach had. The same teacher we've seen in the halls for three years. He was beyond excited and truthfully, so was I. I really like Mrs. Y. She's great when your kid is a little anal retentively organized (because she is too). We got hugged when we came to her class and Zach got to show Wes where fun things were. Zach's 2nd grade class was Mrs. Y's buddies last year.

Anywho. We did the scavenger hunt and the only thing that went wrong was Wes had no desk with his name on it. Mrs. Y was horrified. She kept apologizing to him and then she let Wes pick out where he wanted to sit and he could sit where ever he wanted. So he sat by someone he had class with last year.

We went to Mr. D's class next. He's also an awesome teacher and Zach was very excited to be in class with him this year. Mr. D's room makes me a little claustrophobic due to the sheer amount of crap he has in there, but he is an awesome teacher and I won't be in his class much so I'll deal with it. There's a kid that was in Zach's 1st grade class that was nice to Zach when other boys weren't around and if other boys were around, he was a jerk to Zach. We got to discuss this boy's behavior in first grade and how real friends don't treat you like dirt when other people come along blah blah blah. So I'm hoping this kid has learned from first grade and isn't so much of a jerk again this year. Zach said it's fine if he is because Zach just won't play with him. Afterall, he knows a lot of kids in class this year and they like him as he is so who cares if Jack doesn't. I heart Zach.

We played this game called "Munchkin" after we came home from the open house. My phone rang in the middle of my turn, but I didn't recognize the number. I answered the phone anyway and was surprised to hear Mrs. Y say hello. She was calling to talk to Wesley and tell him he had a desk now, who he was sitting by, where he was sitting, and how sorry she was that she forgot his name. Tell me that's not an awesome teacher. Wes had the biggest grin because Mrs. Y called him at home to tell him all that.

It'll be a good school year. I can feel it. The boys are excited, I'm excited about free days for a while. I have volunteer opportunities previously closed to me, I am taking more college classes, I've got some projects in the works, and I'm job hunting. It's a good time right now and less then a year until Cody gets out of the USAF. YAY!