First full week of school and early morning seminary

We made it through the first full week of school. Kate also had early morning seminary, starting at 6 am and so it was fun getting up earlier to get her up. She gets picked up by a fellow seminary student and that is nice. (It has been nice to run with my hubby while she is gone. We even had slightly cool weather one morning. It was so nice. But, when it's winter, and cold and dark, I'm not sure I'll like exercising that early.) After seminary, Kate then hurries home to catch her bus. Ms. Kim has faithfully come to pick up Kate everyday, despite bus trouble with her battery and the bus shooting sparks. There have been problems with other buses as well. Jordan's comes early and Kammie and Zack's has come late. I'm still adjusting to getting everyone off on their respective buses and since it's not a set in stone thing, we are going to continue adjusting. On Monday and Tuesday, I picked up Kam and Zack (or a friend did on Tuesday), but their bus came by much earlier, so we had them take the bus home after school again. Spencer had one "sick" day this week. His teacher called to have me come get him, because his tummy hurt. But by the next day he was fine.

I'm very happy to say that a judge ruled this week in favor of the teachers union and Pulaski County Special School District has agreed to take the extra 40 minutes a day out of the elementary school day by September 13th. So, we don't know if that means they'll just go back to the old schedule from last year or if they'll come up with something new. But since the buses are shared between the High/Middle schools and the Elementary schools, they'll have to have different end times then all getting out at the same time. So, we won't be able to get into a set routine for a while. And with everyone getting up and leaving at different times, we need to do better on family scripture study. We'll keep pluggin' away.