What back to school traditions do you have
leading up to the first day of school?
Well. You know, we've talked a
little bit about trying to get them
to go to bed early, little earlier.
Yes, because the mornings are the roughest
part when you start back to school,
especially when your kids have
been sleeping in till 8:00 or 9:00
o'clock every single morning time.
The bedtime is hard. Like,
I feel like you have to start
early to get things going.
It's so light out. Yes.
And they don't want to go to bed. No,
we don't want to go to bed. We're
having fun. So I think that's the hard part,
is getting everything like going,
like just the organization, the routine.
You know and you kind of want
to ease them into it because you
can't just be like OK tomorrow
we're getting up at 6.
You're going to bed at 7 like you're
not having any sugar in the morning.
Like you know you don't want
to be dramatic about it
right. So yeah that might be
part of trying to like this next
week maybe start what they mean
with traditions. I don't know.
Well maybe like I mean I think that's that's
good but maybe two like photos. Ohh yeah
first phase school photos and then yeah go do
you do the you hold the
the sign up with the. Their
state, their name and their sign,
it's just a lot of work.
And now I'm like, you know,
after social media,
I'm kind of a hater of letterboards.
But I thought it was really cute at first.
You know, you'd hold him up and write,
like, what grade they're going into,
what they want to be when they grow up.
Yes. If I had all the time,
I'd love to do that. I I
usually were rushing around
so much in the morning. Yeah.
Like, I also,
I mean, it's not a tradition,
but it's just worked that way.
We usually like to do a special dinner
that night after the first day of school.
Like, we'll go out to eat.
They don't really cook,
but we'll go to his favorite restaurant
and then like get ice cream,
right? We actually went all shopping
for schools for school clothes
yesterday. Like as a family.
It was here. It was fun.
Ohh, that's so funny. But we
all, they got some new stuff and
then they had like a little fashion
show of what they're gonna wear.
The first date was really cute. Yes,
we don't normally do stuff like that, but
it was fun. That is fun.
Yeah, that's cute. OK, good.
No, you guys are great.
You guys are good together. OK. So what
back to school resolutions are you making?
Well, I think you just touched on that.
I already went shopping too, which is, yeah,
which is wild because usually I'm like,
I just find an outfit in the closet.
But we went school shopping like 2
weeks ago and got school supplies. We
have school supplies too. We're so prepared.
We've never been this prepared
before. And it's weird. Yeah.
So being organized, I guess, is key.
Yeah. So this year we're determined.
So we the mornings are crazy and I
don't know why we're always we're
they get up early enough but then
it's like every 5 minutes we're like
gotta brush your teeth and like do we
really have to brush your teeth?
We're like yes you have to
brush your teeth everyday.
Yes. And so this year we talked about
doing like a list like writing down so
that we can just like point to the list.
Right. I do index cards. Ohh wow.
No. This was like
I saw it. I was like at my wits end.
And I googled like how to make your
child's right to stuff in the morning.
And it was like. Make it,
make it a project to give them cards.
So now by his bed I put index cards.
Yeah. And it'll be like brush your teeth,
go down to breakfast pack your backpack.
I think that and I'm just gonna point to the
yeah be like that how to buy the
parts and they get dressed. It was
life changing so that's a good idea and they
do that they follow well and if
they can't read they you can probably
even just drop pictures right.
You could drop pictures but I think
it depends on like head like I have
the oldest like people pleaser so
he like wants to to follow her.
Team like he works off a schedule,
but my daughter would be like.
Those are go in the trash.
I'm not doing any of that.
OK, what are your first day hopes
versus what's probably going
to happen on the first day?
Ohh, the first day.
So like filled with so many
emotions for me every year.
I'm like, I'm not gonna cry.
It's gonna be fine,
but it's like such a obvious moment
of like they're getting older and then
they get on the bus and you're like,
Oh my God, they're,
they're going to 2nd and 7th grade
this year and it's always like.
I always hope I'm not gonna cry.
But then I'm like, hey honey.
Yeah. Oh my God. They're
flashback to like, you know, in
the movies, when you see them
flashback to like, when you were
giving birth and there was a baby.
Like, that really does happen.
You're like, ohh, my gosh.
Like weird at the years,
right? Right.
When they get on the bus, right.
When you drop them off,
it feels there's always
some crying involved.
And they're so excited.
Yeah. But even though you're excited
that they're going to school,
it's like you're still sad.
Yeah. And so, I mean,
I hope to get that first picture,
you know, or a picture of them.
Getting on the bus and I hope that it.
Nobody's crying too.
Oh my gosh. Yeah, it's here.
It's like that scares me.
My son this year,
he's going into a class where he
doesn't really know any of the students.
So, you know, you always like hope.
Like. Right.
They don't have that bad first
day because it kind of sets the
tone for the year.
So I think just if we can go with
smiles and come home with smiles,
like that's
a success. Totally. OK,
last question is, oh, what are
what's your after school game plan?
I mean, pick him up, give him a snack.
No. I mean, I guess we'll start
homework eventually. But yeah,
they don't start homework right away,
but which they start
activities usually right away.
We have soccer going on. I just try to.
They're more happy if they're busy.
They're just they seem to do better if
they have a routine like this summer,
they're kind of like all over
the place and everything's,
you know, Willy nilly, right.
But during the school year,
they're happier when they do
something after school or so.
I do soccer and we do, you know,
biking and things like that.
Yeah. But I've gotta sign up for some stuff.
But I think just getting him home,
I think, you know, like I feel like
for my son we have to decompress a
little because schools a lot, you know,
and they've been doing that, you know,
they haven't been going to any kind
of educational thing this summer.
So it's good to like, just have some
time or they'll have a snack and then,
you know, eventually homework.
But. I don't know,
just maybe he'll want to talk about his day.
And like
sometimes, you know,
as they're getting older, they,
they like to go down in the rooms
and just kind of decompress
by themselves, too, like some alone time
because it's been so social and
so many emotions and so many
things going on all day long,
but sometimes just that alone time.
And then they'll talk to you later.
They'll probably talk to you about their day,
you know, as they're going
to bed. Right. That to stop,
in my experience. Yeah.
So. And it's just, yeah,
that's the time they'll tell
you about your day. It's like
if I've ever tried to talk
to them right away when they
walk in the door after school,
like what have you done today?
What? Who did you
talk to? What was your friends?
Or just like, yeah,
they shut down. Yeah. Yeah.
The night time is the best, yeah.