Back-to-School Checklist

Rooms thoroughly cleaned and rearranged: CHECK

Clothes organized, ironed, and laid out according to outfits: CHECK

Hair washed, dried, and flat-ironed: CHECK

Hair cut for Andrew: CHECK

Hair cut for Jake: CHECK

Lunches made: CHECK

Father's blessings given: CHECK

Tired son who did not want to wake up in the morning: CHECK

Chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast: CHECK

4th grader who takes her 1st grade cousin under her wing: CHECK

Traditional hand-on-the-front-door-knob pictures taken: CHECK
First two students ushered out the door to the bus: CHECK
Mom who surprisingly chokes back tears: CHECK

Sixth graders (!) who walked down the street to their bus stop: CHECK

Mom who doesn't know what to do with herself: CHECK

Mom who quickly finds plenty to do: CHECK

Bus that drops kids off almost 30 minutes late: CHECK

Hot kids ready to spill details of the first day: CHECK

Form after form after form to fill out: CHECK

Kids who didn't fight all afternoon: CHECK

Ready to do it all again tomorrow?

CHECK!