You know how excited everybody is for the last day of school?  The start of summer vacations, no homework or structure, running around barefoot through sprinkles, staying up way past your bedtime, catching fireflies, sleep-overs with friends and hours and hours and hours of play time?  Well, I think people (well, Moms) are even more excited about the first day of school!   Don’t get me wrong – we had a GREAT summer – I loved spending it with my kids (and husband of course) and the girls had a blast.  But last week I realized that I could not handle the ‘no structure days’ much longer – I needed some discipline and structure and while I LOVE my kids dearly, I needed to get them out of the house!  So as I can images, the count-down for the first day of school began shortly after that. And finally the day was here – the first day of school!   The outfits were picked up, backpacks packed up, hair accessories purchased and alarms set.  What I forgot to do was to charge my camera batteries – too late I realized that my spare was completely drained and the camera battery was on the last bar.  It did not last till they went to school but I did manage to take our annual back-to-school pictures – including a group picture of all the kids on our street!  And this year there is one sweet addition to the pictures – our adorable Millie!

And once the kids were in school it was time for this Mommy and her mommy friends to celebrate – first with an after drop-off breakfast at a local cafe and the next day with a ladies luncheon at Neiman Marcus.  And now that the celebrations are all done, it is time to settle back into a routine:)