no school today

Today we had to take Nemo in for his yearly checkup, and then rushed to Oak Mountain for the "No School Zone" party that our cover school was throwing. We made it in really good time. I didn't meet as many of the other moms as I would have liked because I had to be in the water with Tuck and they mostly stayed on shore, but I met a few who seemed nice. Also Jen was there and I met her friend Katie. Tuck mostly stayed by me, but Emma made a new little friend, Rebecca, and had fun with Georgia, of course. Then home for a nap--somehow baking in that sun really takes it out of me. While we were driving home it occurred to Emma "Mom! We didn't do Geography and Math!" So I explained to her that Wednesdays were going to be our usual field trip/fun days, since they are her piano lesson days so the morning schedule is thrown off anyway.

She was talking about her school friends today, chattering on about how she was going to invite Hannah and Dalton and Olivia and Christopher to a Halloween party--I didn't say anything but privately hoping that she will meet enough new friends to forget the old...