First Day 2012

Yesterday was the first day of the 2012 school year, and as has been tradition, I took the day off so I could see the girls off.  This is Sarah's first year of high school and her bus comes around 7:30 AM.  She also has to walk two blocks to catch it, so we wanted her to leave at 7:15 so she was there in plenty of time in case the bus came early.  However, as always, she was running late, so the annual photo on the front step was rushed.

This year, since it is her first year in HS, I decided to post a side by side comparison of the first day of Kindergarten 10 years ago and the first day today.  Here they are.

 

 

And also, as always, the girls had their photos taken together. 

They are so excited to get back to school on the first day.  That feeling usually lasts a day or so.  Longer for Alison.  Sarah already had her language teacher tell her that her summer project was not up to par so she has to redo it.  The only good thing is that it appears that all the other kids in her class were equally inept.  This was for advanced language, or English, or whatever they are calling that class now.  She was complaining when she got home today as well that her teacher's are tough.  Gee, no kidding.  I tried to tell Sarah that as she gets older the classes get more difficult, and the expectations also increase, especially since she is taking four honors level courses this semester.  So we'll see how things go.  Hopefully, she'll be able to handle things.