This morning was the first staff meeting of the school year. It’s the beginning of the end of summer vacation. Tuesday is the first day of school. It’s that time of year when my “to do” list explodes. My mind is swirling with things I need to do to be ready for work next week, things I need to do to make sure Peter is ready to start school, and things to do to recruit more kids to Peter’s Scout group (Don and I volunteered to head up the recruitment campaign which essentially didn’t exist previously, thus why there were only four kids in his Beaver Scout colony last year). Because there haven’t been any new registrations yet for this year, currently his Beaver colony has three Scouts and four leaders (one of last year’s Beavers moved up to Cubs). All three returning Beaver Scouts are the children of leaders since Don is becoming a leader this year.
Things to do this weekend include: cut Peter’s hair, cut Peter’s finger and toe nails, acquire a transparent ruler and two packages of napkins (his school e-mailed a supply list yesterday, so now I know for sure what he needs), write a note to Peter’s teacher about a couple things she/he should know so we get communication off to a good start for the year (he won’t know who his teacher is until Tuesday morning), get all his stuff labeled and ready to go, print out my lesson plans for next week, buy some new work shoes (since we moved, I can only find a left shoe of one pair and a right shoe of another pair–both black Dr. Scholls but not quite the same), get a print of a photo of Peter from this summer (the picture of him on my desk is so out-of-date that I don’t want to admit how old it is), take Peter out to buy ice cream to celebrate his graduation today from the Little Stories for Little Folks reading program that I’ve been using with him for almost two years (not to brag too much or anything, but he hasn’t started grade 1 yet and he reads pretty solidly at a grade 2 or early grade 3 level–now he gets to go to school and learn to read in French), celebrate Don’s birthday (his actual birthday is Tuesday, but since that’s the first day of school, we’ll celebrate over the weekend), get some Scouting recruitment flyers out, and try to find some time to get my head in the right place and mentally prepare myself for next week. Whew!
I’ve got to ask . . . what are the two packages of napkins for? Some kind of craft?
The two packages of napkins are on the list of supplies Peter needs to bring to school. I assume they will just use them in the classroom throughout the year for snacks and lunches.
So glad to know I’m not the only one with to-do lists like this (I never do check off everything – it’s not possible). But I feel for you. Yikes.
Oh, okay, I was picturing the packages of 1000, and couldn’t figure out what a kid would need 2000 napkins for