quick change artists

We're winding up the 4th week of school (!) and it's been amazingly quiet. Cassidy hasn't had any issues starting Jr. High (at least nothing she will admit to) and she's enjoying most of her classes. Grant is well entrenched in 3rd grade and his 3rd year in the same SDC class. Owen is soaking up Kindergarten as if he was parched for knowledge. Besides the big introductions of Jr. High and Kindergarten, our biggest concern was scheduling. They each go to a different school and Grant and Owen's class get out 5 minutes apart. The teachers, however, have been very accommodating and that turned out to be a non-issue. The other scheduling issue was that Kindergarten starts almost 2 hours after Staci goes to work but she had all that worked out as well. We had a great system going!



We got a letter the other day stating that some classes at Owen's school need to be juggled and that one of the K classes would be switched to a K/1st combo class. Hmm... Initially we thought it might be a great thing for Owen since he's doing so well and we initially had concerns that he might be bored in K. However, once we found out that the new class would start in the "early" hour and not hist current "late" hour, we abandoned that. Can't do that, our schedule is perfect!

We got another letter today. Your child has been placed in the new K/1st grade combo class. Ack! Not only was everything working out academically and clock-wise, Staci also had 90 minutes all to herself each day before she had to pick up Owen. In the blink of an eye, we now need to find somewhere for Owen to go for about 60 minutes after school since he gets out before Staci is out of work, and now Staci's "quiet time" has just disappeared . @#)2@)#(*)#((#)((!!!

Oh, and in case this wasn't made perfectly clear in the first letter, this all starts this coming Monday.