First of Many First Days

This past week was the first of many to come. Zoie began Pre-K this year. Hard for mom to realize that my baby was now in school. She is a big girl now. There are many changes that occurred with in this first week. Our county became a charter county which meant lots of changes for us. But one major change was our seat time. Our students only have to attend school for 174 days this year. Because Zoie's school is not a part of our system this rule did not apply to them. So last Thursday during my pre-planning Zoie began Pre-K. On Thursday morning I dropped Haleigh off at Kingdom Kids which is the place Zoie went to daycare. I get much more work accomplished without the girls so she went there. Then we made the trek to White County Pre-K. I walked her into her class and explained where she would be going after school. Zoie looked at me hugged me and said "bye Mom love you". It broke my heart. But made me glad that she did not cry. I was so proud of my baby girl but inside I was breaking. So the weekend came and Haleigh began to get ready for 2nd grade. We went and met her teacher and she seemed ready to go. However on Friday night Haleigh came down with a bug. A nasty bug that would go on and infect our whole entire family. Yes me included. You see you cannot tell a virus when you would like it to invade. It picks the time. Zoie became sick on Sunday night and Monday morning trying to take care of her I became sick myself. Now what are the odds that I would get sick too. Well for me and White County High School that would be 50%. Two years ago I missed the first day of school because Haleigh was sick. Bless my subs Joe's heart for he has subbed for me lots in the past but especially on these two wonderful occasions of the first day of school. So Monday I called in and got a sub while Scott took Haleigh to school. Haleigh rides a shuttle bus to my school in the afternoons. So we continued as planned so not to confuse anyone and my friend Libbye graciously brought her home so I did not have to leave the house. Well the virus does not like to stop until it has all its host. So it traveled on from Zoie and I to Scott. Yep the 4th member of the Holland family got sick too. Monday night Scott began getting sick too. It has been a week and it is only Tuesday. So today I finally got to meet my new Chemistry and Environmental Science students. Today was my first day but their 2nd. I guess everything can't run smoothly if so we would never appreciate anything. I hope if we have anymore first in the Holland family that they are not dealing with sickness. I have included pictures of the girls for their first days of school. I am so proud of them both!