Well our first day of school was suppose to start at 9:00 am today.
Of course I got called into work at 6:44 am. I work for juvenile intake for my county. When there is a child in need of care or a child arrested they call me and I go into the sheriff's dept. and process the kids information, put it into the computer and then access where the child needs to be released to.
So anyway, I got called in for one teenager and while process that kid they brought me two more that I needed to process. I was there until 12:45. Not what I had planned for the day.
I had planned to be done with school by then. So we just had to be flexible and do school this afternoon. We finished at 5:45.
Usually on the first day of school I take pictures of each of the kids and we all go out to eat and have ice cream at the same restaurant each year. That didn't happen today, but we'll do those things tomorrow and just pretend it's the first day.
I think we're going to love our new curriculum. I ordered it on Tuesday around midnight and I received it on Sat. That was fast shipping.
Here's to a great year of learning and growing together as a family.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
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Robin, I'm so glad to know that I'm not the only one who has days like this one. I often have these kinds of days; some because of my own doing and some because of unexpected things that come out of the blue.
ReplyDeleteThough there are only nine(9) 'Beatitudes' in the Bible, I've learned to, also, live by a tenth 'Beatitude' - "Blessed are the flexible for they shall not get bent out of shape."
I'm happy you were flexible enough to adjust your schedule and still have a successful 'First Day' of school. Having your children see your flexibility in this unforeseen situation was probably one of the most important lessons (a life lesson) you taught for the day and may have been a greater lesson than anything else you 'formally' instructed them on that first day of class.
Congratulations on seizing the moment to teach your children a very valuable lesson of going to 'Plan B' when life throws you a curve ball!