Starting School or Kindy

This started out as one really long post but I have broken it down a bit and spread it over a few blog entries.

Amelia ready for her first day at school 28 Jan 2010 and the welcome our teacher had on the blackboard.

The start of the year and the school term means a lot of you will be packing lunches each day, making sure school shoes are polished, drink bottles are full of water, uniforms are clean enough to get through the day and frantically ironing a shirt or dress if they aren't (or is that just me??!) and applying sunscreen before you walk out the door in the mornings. And a lot of my lovely customers will be doing this for the first time!

There is no better way to make you feel old or wonder where the years have gone than seeing your 'baby' in their school uniform and a way too big school bag on their back. I know it made me tear up last year!

Not only do you have to...

•  make sure they have enough food for the day,
•  it has to meet the schools food policy if it has one (you might want to check with the school office the week before school returns), 
• not have nuts, 
• be nutritious and be something you are reasonably confident will be eaten! 

 Where was this chapter in the parenting books?

 Lunch boxes and summer time, to me, don't mix. How do you

•  keep yoghurt cool? 
• Ham from going off? 
• Cheese from going manky?

Stay tuned, I know how!

But there are a few other really important things about morning tea and lunch that are far more important than a lunch box coming home empty... you child has to be able to open, the containers that the food you have sent to school with them!

Settling in to do some work, all the kids were so good on this day. Gosh, she looks so little!

Me and my girl.

First day was a half day and we took AMelia to one of her favourite parks for a treat for a late lunch.

Pony tails were ripped out the second she got out of the classroom, the next days challenge was to keep them in till we had left school grounds!