As you can tell from the photo, the girls had a great first day of school. But that doesn't mean there aren't adjustments. MANY adjustments. Way too many to go into here.
In brief, it's their first experience with public school... so no uniforms, no disciplinary enforcement by paddle, and no firm structure to every aspect of the day.
We got to school close to seven-thirty, so plenty of time to check things out. We went to the cafeteria to get the girls some breakfast, but they were having none of that. They were way too nervous. The nerves did calm down a bit when they met up with a friend of theirs that explained some of what was going on to them.
When class time rolled around, Darby was pretty well adjusted, mostly thanks to her pre-existing friend that is also in her class and was introducing the other students to her. Shelby, on the other hand, was a little squeemish because she didn't know anyone in her class, and she didn't really know what was going on. She's the type that easily frays when things aren't precisely spelled out. I left the classroom about five after eight, not comfortable that it was difficult to get Shelby to crack a real smile.
But when I returned to the school to pick them up, they were both VERY excited about how their day went, to the extent that neither of them could really shut-up about it. A big relief, but there are still questions to be answered. Hopefully all will be answered by Thursday, when the school is having an orientation type of pow-wow.
Shelby had a pretty good birthday, I think, considering we haven't even had her party yet. She got flowers from her mom, I took her to dinner/ice cream at a place of her choice, and she got at least a half dozen phone calls from relatives with birthday wishes. So if today was that good for her, this weekend has big things in store.
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