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In my world, I think September 1st is the new January 1st.  I love the start of school and the Fall season.  Growing up, I always loved the first day of school!  I loved picking out what to wear, buying school supplies, seeing old and new friends, meeting new teachers, getting new text books, etc... It was a start of a new year with a fresh start!

Now that Olivia is in school ... I enjoy her first day back right along with her.  She is so excited for school to start and we have everything ready.  I'm even excited to start making her lunches again - at least for the time being, I'm sure this novelty will soon be come a chore like it was last year!  I found several blogs focused completely on school lunches, in particular bento boxes.  I have a few of those for Olivia and I really want to make some of those cute little sandwiches - perhaps that will entice her to eat bread!

I was bummed that we missed "back to school night" to meet her teacher and see her new classroom because we were on vacation.  Maybe on Friday, we'll meet her for lunch so we can say hello to her teacher and see her new classroom.  This year, we ordered her school supplies from the school - which is great for convenience, but I must admit, I missed bringing the list to Target and picking out the goodies with Olivia ourselves. 

Olivia's teacher is Ms.Brewer.  I heard great things about her.  Two of her best friends from first grade aren't in her second grade class, but I'm sure she will make new friends.

Very excited to take her back-to-school pictures as well!  I may bring her over to the empty school bus lot sometime today to 'sneak' some pictures.  I did that last year and the pictures were sooooo cute!