Adventures in La La Land

1. I spoke too soon about the girls adjusting flawlessly to school. Lena had an absolute psychotic meltdown Monday morning. Honestly, it was what I expected last week, but when she happily went into school every day I thought we dodged a bullet. Apparently it was a delayed bullet. She cried all morning on Monday, but I figured she was just tired because she stayed up late Sunday night. I watch Ruby on Mondays, so I had a van-full when I pulled into the pick-up lane. Lena refused to get out. I bodily hauled her out onto the sidewalk while she bawled, but she kept begging me to walk into school with her. First mistake: I gave in. I parked the car, got Levi and Ruby out, and walked Lena into her classroom. I sat at her desk with her for a couple minutes and told her I'd leave in 5 minutes. When I got up to go, she lost her ever-loving mind: shrieking, wailing, rolling on the floor, clinging to my ankles. The teacher tried to kindly draw her back into the classroom, but we were beyond

1. The transition back to school this week went so well . The girls are loving every second of it. Lucy's been whining that she doesn't want to come home after school and she doesn't have enough homework! (We'll see how long that lasts.) Waking up early has been as hard as I expected - especially for Lena. But by the end of the week, all 3 kids were going to sleep much earlier and easier (praise the Lord!), so hopefully I won't have to literally pull Lena out of bed every morning as she continues to adjust. They missed 3 weeks of ACS, so they're playing a little bit of catch-up, but it's just a matter of completing important missed assignments. I think they're both on track academically with their peers. Lena's a little behind on reading and Lucy may be a little behind on math, but she's ahead in English. Since we used the same curriculum as ACS for those 2 weeks that I actually homeschooled them (and since we move at a much faster pace since I o