First Day of School

Well, actually, Caleb attended full-day kindergarten last year, but today marked the first day of first grade and his very first school bus ride. For both pre-school and kindergarten he could walk to school. It’s a new town as well, and he’s attending a magnet school with grades K-8 in the same building. Sarah was a bit concerned about putting him on a bus with 8th graders and wondered if she should drive him the first day, but Caleb decided he wanted to ride the bus. In anticipation of this very big first day, I sent Caleb a card. As soon as I saw the “School Bus Messages” set during the July or August release at Simon Says, I knew I had to have it. (There are still three more very first days to come for my grandchildren!)

I stamped the bus and colored it with Copic markers before cutting it out by hand. Then I stamped, cut, and colored two cute critters—one from Simon Says ” Quite the Pear,” and one from Simon Says “Wild Cuddly Critters,” I cut them to fit into the school bus windows. Another new product from that Simon Says order was the “Diamond Pattern” card cover die. (I already have lots of ideas for using that.) I layered it on a card made from Papertrey’s “Bright Buttercup,” and then adhered the school bus, adding some Crystal Nuvo to the lights on the school bus. The sentiment is also from the “School Bus Messages” set.

We were anxious to hear about Caleb’s first day, and had a great FaceTime conversation with him when he got home. The bus ride was fine (and not as long as anticipated), and he had a great first day just as we wished for him.