Mid-Week Update

1. Joel is heading to his annual Vegas trip (Okay he hasn't actually gone on it since Caroline was born... tri-annual?) where we hope he will have lots of fun! And win some money? Probably too much to ask for. I am not looking forward to figuring out how to get the girls to dance , Ben to flag football, and do the grocery shopping (with three kids along??) this weekend (Joel does all the grocery shopping normally). He will be back Sunday night.

2. Last night was "Middle School 101" at South Charlotte Middle School (hereafter SCMS) Ben's soon-to-be middle school. I got to visit the school for the first time, take a tour, and learn a little bit about registration. There are elective options as well as a single-gender option, so there's a registration card that Ben will receive in April for registering for classes. There's another information session entirely about registration in April as well. It already seems a bit intimidating :) The school is nice and a lot bigger than I am used to :) Fortunately each grade level has its own hall, except for electives, so he'll be mostly mingling with other 6th graders during the day and confined to one section of the school. And, he'd better figure out how to use a combination lock because there are lockers :) SCMS is a pilot school for a 1:1 technology program , so every student gets assigned a Chromebook at the beginning of the school year that is theirs for the year. They check it out in homeroom and carry it with them to all their classes in their backpacks, and then return it to homeroom before they go home for the day. Ben carrying a laptop around with him all day makes me a LITTLE NERVOUS (do I have to buy it if he breaks it?) Loads more about the transition to middle school in future blog posts I am sure!