Now, of coarse, we did the typical back to school shopping for clothing, supplies, and the BEST princess back-pack ever! But since the discovery of Pinterest (which by the way has only helped me in being an even more awesome mom in my daughters eyes lol) I have found a couple different things that I wanted to try this school year to see how they went.
Our back to school morning started off with a visit from the Back to School Fairy!
She brought Markers, Coloring pages, stickers, snacks, new princess pencils, ring pops, and a couple other little treats. She also left a note to send good wishes and even sent a "Hello" from George, our Elf on the Shelf!
Gracie wanted to take her teacher a "cake" as she requested. And since that would be rather difficult to transport, we compromised on a loaf of cream cheese cake (which is to dye for BTW, and you can find the recipe here)
This year I let Gracie have full control over her out fit, and I think she did very well!
She looks happy in these pictures, but trust me, in between photos she was yelling at me that it was time to go!! I guess I couldn't put it off much longer...
Overall, I'm just very excited, sad, proud, sad, happy.....did I mention sad?! Education is the most important gift to give a child and it makes me so happy that she loves school so much! I'm sad that she is growing up and needs me less and less every day. On a bright note, her teacher seems Awesome and I am going to try and be involved as much as I can! So here's to hoping everyone else is having great first days back at school and I look forward to seeing where this school year takes us!!
