The first week of school

So here we are, a week into the 7th grade. I never thought this day would come, and I'm pretty sure that Alex & Maryssa were praying that it wouldn't.

The week was crazy. In case you didn't notice, Wake County has had some issues with its buses*, which caused the girls to be late to school most mornings and then to spend nearly 2 hours on the bus every afternoon before they could get home. Honestly, who needs travel stress when you're in the 7th grade? Can we just leave all the peer pressure, scheduling issues (only 5 minutes between classes?!) and homework stress alone without adding the BUS to the list?

On top of that, the school realized 5 days in that both girls were in all the wrong core classes. So they changed them on Friday. Which means that Alex & Maryssa are both going to completely different classes with different teachers today than they had last week. Feels a lot like, "Wasn't last week FUN?! Let's do it AGAIN!"

Honestly, I think that if we can all get through today we'll be good. I'm not going to hold out any hope that there won't be tears, or yelling. Those are usually a given.

My only question is - what kind of sweets should I arrive home with today?


*For those of you not in the Raleigh local area, our county is all kinds of messed up. This week's story is about bussing. I'm sure its on CNN, everything else we do wrong around here is.